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...operas that must be your choice If you like plays that sing Are solely dependent on one voice The voice of Rudolf Bing...
Cross Your Fingers. It was Edward Johnson himself who first brought Rudolf Bing forward 23 months ago as a likely successor. The Met's directors were impressed by Bing's prewar experience with Britain's Glyndebourne Opera Company and the success he had made of the postwar Edinburgh Festivals. Bing's first acts as manager nonetheless made the 37 directors nervously cross their august fingers...
From the general air of benevolent conspiracy, just about everyone backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House knew that a surprise was in the making. Only a few -not including the Met's new General Manager Rudolf Bing-had been told the details. Last week, with a gala New Year's Eve audience settled in their seats for Fledermaus, the Met's bubbliest new production in years (TIME, Jan. 1), Mezzo Rise Stevens uncorked the surprise...
Oldtimers in the audience tried to remember when any general manager of the Met had won so jovial an accolade, finally gave up. After only nine weeks of his first season, Rudolf Bing looked like the best thing that had happened to the Met in many a day. Nobody expected Bing to take all the creaks out of the old place overnight, but he had already accomplished the near miracle of persuading his singers, his board of directors and his audiences that the Met was not doomed to creak forever along ways established back in the gaslight...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Pianist Rudolf Serkin...