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...order them to board would take them, not to resettlement farms in the East, but to gas chambers. One of these escapees was a 19-year-old former student who had been a prisoner in Auschwitz for nearly two years. His name was Walter Rosenberg, but he called himself Rudolf Vrba...
...years, until 1972, this unwieldy kingdom was presided over by Sir Rudolf Bing, a resourceful administrator but one often resented for his peremptory ways. Though he spent money lavishly, he is undeniably looking better and better as he recedes from view. His successor, Goren Gentele, came from the state-subsidized Royal Opera House in Stockholm. Gentele was killed in a car crash only 18 days after he took over. His most tangible legacy was the appointment of the first music director in the Met's 90-year history, Czech-born Conductor Rafael Kubelik. It is an indication...
...best known for her spare interpretations of Greek tragedies. But then splinterbug Graham played two shows a day on the Phantasia circuit in the early twenties. Now on a lecture/concert tour, Graham also had some tart things to say about the Metropolitan Opera's former general manager Sir Rudolf Bing. "He had a misconceived notion of the purpose of dance," said Graham, who maintains that every woman has a touch of Medea and Clytemnestra in her. "He thought of it as fluffy, a superficial sort of thing to permit men to ogle pretty girls...
...staged.) Covent Garden's second version, in 1969, produced among other things, the definitive Philips recording by Conductor Colin Davis. Boston's indefatigable Sarah Caldwell staged it as two operas last year. But the Metropolitan Opera studiously avoided Les Troyens, largely because former General Manager Sir Rudolf Bing considered it a bore. Last week the big day-or rather the long night-finally arrived. The essentially uncut performance lasted just under five hours, including two 30-minute intermissions during which, precedent of precedents, ham sandwiches were sold (for $1.25) to the tired and hungry in the grand tier...
...being subjected to even worse persecution than we astrologers." Or, even worse, " 'You must meet Himmler,' Kersten told me. 'You'll like him. He is a nice man.' " So Wulff, who had been arrested in a roundup of astrologers after Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess's 1941 flight to England (Hess was believed to have consulted astrologers about the most favorable date for his departure), got invited to lunch at the castle of Heinrich Himmler, commander of the concentration camps and the SS. Wulff was impressed by "the cordiality of his welcome...