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...jovial nature, Melchior had his share of pride. He departed from the Met in 1950 after General Manager Rudolf Bing approached lesser singers first with new contracts. Melchior threatened to withdraw unless his agreement was renewed immediately; Bing, notoriously unsympathetic to any ultimatum...
...cannot bear to wait another 100 years, a dozen groups are offering tours to the best spots from which to observe a total eclipse of the sun in June; there will not be a longer blackout until 2150. One airline will fly 250 customers to Kenya's Lake Rudolf, where they will stay in a special safari camp complete with guides, hunters, scientists and lectures on astronomy. A Boston group will fly from New York City to Casablanca, board the S.S. Masalia for a cruise along the path of the eclipse in the South Atlantic and hear a series...
...Rudolf Bing, 71, the former general manager of the Metropolitan Opera whose laser-beam wit has terrorized and delighted the music world, seems to have decided that he can take the knocks onstage as well as give them off. After signing up to play three performances for the Met's youthful rival, the New York City Opera, Bing explained how he was chosen for a nonsinging, nonspeaking role in a new production of Hans Werner Henze's The Young Lord: "Julius Rudel [the director] called me and said, 'In the opera, there is an old lord...
Despite the physical disadvantages, the company has assembled a trio of tightly meshed, highly polished productions. Mini-Met amply fulfills hopes that have been growing for nearly two decades. Early in his administration as the Met's general manager, Sir Rudolf Bing spoke of creating a second opera stage for intimate performances of small-scale works unsuited to a 3,800-seat house, with the dual purpose of providing young artists with wider exposure while attracting audiences not smitten with standard repertory. But lacking a convenient junior theater like Milan's 600-seat Piccolo Scala or Munich...
...Metropolitan Opera. A onetime composition student, Chapin has experience as a supervisor of classical recordings for the Columbia label and as a chief of programming for Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Two years ago he was executive producer of Leonard Bernstein's television and film enterprises. Then Sir Rudolf Bing's successor as the Met's general manager, Goran Gentele, named Chapin as his assistant, although Chapin had never before held a job in an opera company. Last July Gentele was killed in a car crash in Sardinia, and Chapin got up from dinner to find himself...