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...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 acting head of the 90-year-old institution and one of the most powerful figures in the music world...
...however, only nudity has reached epidemic proportions. The monokini, which first appeared in St.-Tropez two years ago has spread this year to the beaches of tonier Antibes, Juan-les-Pins and Sardinia. By now the fad has become so familiar that Le Figaro's food critic has commented that "a breast leaning into a local salad is as removed from sexuality as a nose, an ear or a heel bone...
Died. Göran Gentele, 54, newly installed general manager of New York's Metropolitan Opera; in an automobile collision on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia (see Music...
...death seems crueler than an early death, cutting off talent at its peak. Such was the tragedy last week of the Metropolitan Opera's new general manager, Göran Gentele, who was killed in an automobile accident while vacationing in Sardinia.* The car he was driving collided head-on with a truck, also killing two of Gentele's daughters and injuring his wife and a third daughter. "We're all in shock," said Met President George S. Moore. Abe Marcus, chairman of the Met's orchestra committee, spoke for the rank and file...
...season on Sept. 19: a new production of Bizet's Carmen, staged by Gentele himself. Before rehearsals begin on Aug. 1, the Met needs to find a new stage director modest enough to carry out Gentele's ideas. Only a week before Gentele went to Sardinia, he wrote to Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Home, his Carmen: "The production is rolling along smoothly. At this point, the only person who could ruin it would be the director...