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Rush the Ambulance. Rudi Bing has not worked his cures by coddling the singers or anyone else. His policy from the first has been "firmness-sympathy but firmness." Says one singer: "Bing is the boss. He knows it and makes everyone else know it." But the Bing firmness is tempered with wit, and even touches of slapstick. One sample last fall: when he suspected that the "illness" of one of his tenors was chiefly laziness, he rushed two doctors and an ambulance to the tenor's door in burlesque solicitude. Says Bing in his caramel-soft Viennese-British accent...
...tense inside," Roberta told a circle of congratulators after the final curtain. Said grateful Rudi Bing: "You were very nice. Now hurry home and get a good night's sleep...
...Rudi Bing himself had some matters that would bear sleeping on. He had done a bang-up job on his two new productions of Don Carlo and The Flying Dutchman (TIME, Nov. 20). But after a sleepwalking Don Giovanni (and a ragged Traviata two weeks ago), it was clear that some of the Met's old productions needed tuning...
...date. Furthermore, he had made money doing it. An audience of 4,000 had packed the big house (paying a $36 top) to give him the biggest opening-night gross (after taxes) in Met history: more than $50,000.* Over his first hurdle with thoroughbred ease, later last week Rudi Bing settled down to running the rest of the race...
...chorus master shifting on his feet, surreptitiously looking at his watch; the head stagehand; the chief electrician . . ." She learned to compute the cost of 15 minutes overtime in a flash; it could run into hundreds of dollars. But whenever she felt she had to have overtime drill, Rudi Bing, even though he was starting his first season with the biggest deficit in Met history ($430,502), usually gave...