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...vowed never to enter as a tourist) and made her debut, again in Aïda, without a single stage rehearsal. "After all," she says, "what's the problem? The Nile can only be upstage." The crowd shouted "Brava Leonessa!" Then, for the new opera house at the Salzburg Festival last summer, Von Karajan "had this big, fat, crackpot idea of my doing Donna Anna." Leontyne did it, and followed it by opening the Berlin Festival as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic. By then the Met's Rudolf Bing had signed her, and that was "the ultimate." Says...
...Europe's No. 1 man of many musical hats-and almost as many moods-is noted for having walked out on some of the best jobs in opera and symphony on the Continent. Last week he did it again. The post of artistic director of the famed Salzburg Festival was specially created for him four years ago. and he called it the achievement of a lifelong ambition. But Von Karajan has now refused to renew his contract...
...usual, rumors flew as fast as bow strokes in the William Tell overture: Von Karajan had quit over the mixed public reception to the new Salzburg Festspielhaus, whose massive design was considered by some inimical to the intimacy of Mozart operas (TIME, Aug. 8); or he had been forced out because he scanted Mozart during his tenure in favor of Richard Strauss and various modern composers. A more likely explanation was that he was just restless again...
...President of Salzburg's Festival...
Despite the claims of such chic newcomers as Spoleto, Europe's two most important music festivals remain Salzburg and Bayreuth. As they opened last week-Bayreuth with new productions of all four operas of Richard Wagner's Ring, and Salzburg with a new Festspielhaus reputed to be the world's most technically advanced theater-both festivals were musically still far ahead of most other summer fare, but seemed disappointing compared to the success of past seasons...