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...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," wrote TIME in its first cover story on the opera's manager in 1951. He had at least convinced people, the story went on, "that the Met was not doomed to creak forever along ways established back in the gaslight...
Last week an older but no less energetic Rudolf Bing led the Met into a new era and a new house at New York's Lincoln Center. Our second cover story on Bing not only brings his career up to date but assesses the present condition of an ever-appealing, grandly irrational art form-and reports the event itself in words and color pictures...
...opening night, smiling benevolently and dutifully playing host, was the wisp of a man who has led the cast of thousands to the Met's auspicious debut: General Manager Rudolf Franz Josef Bing. If he was looking more gaunt than usual, it was only understandable. "We," he said wistfully, "have been pregnant for so long...
...monument in Lincoln Center provides dramatic supporting evidence. The swipes from his critics, the tantrums of his singers, the sour notes from his musicians, all fail to stir even a hemidemisemiquaver of irritation in his aplomb. Among the scores of appropriate quotations from operas that he uses for punctuation, Rudolf Bing likes best the line from the Flying Dutchman: "My ship is firm; it suffers no damage...
...third that the music itself overwhelmed the stage dazzles. There alone did Barber's vocal writing transform itself into genuine opera. And so what the Met had to offer on its first night in its new quarters was a musical extravaganza-which is precisely what Rudolf Bing had had in mind as a bauble fit to set in his shiny showcase...