Word: season
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Metropolitan Opera's new season started last Monday with more than the usual amount of confusion. Rudolph Bing, the Met's General Manager and trouble shooter par excellence had his hands full as six productions were put into their final form for presentation this week...
...unprecedented six shows in the Met's opening week reflects Bing's desire to lengthen the Metropolitan's season without conflicting with the commitments of Met singers to other opera companies, especially the San Francisco Opera and the European spring festivals. Though there is much to be said for the extension of a Metropolitan season, (It would offer more performances to opera lovers and steadier employment to performers.) the appearance of six operas in one week presents enormous problems...
...company not only has prepared two new productions, Il Trovatore and The Marriage of Figaro where sets, costumes and staging are all unfamiliar but also is presenting a revival of Manon, Massenet's work, which was last produced during the 1953-54 season. A new production requires at least three stage rehearsals with orchestra, sets, costumes and light. A revival of a difficult work like Manon is usually given three stage rehearsals with orchestra, two of these in full dress. However, this week, four operas return to the repertory from last year and these each require at least one dress...
After a desultory early-season performance, Fitzgerald came into his own in two fine races against Ernest Tracy of Penn and Tom Laris of Dartmouth. The entire squad was beginning to rally around his inspirational performances. So complete was his comeback that he would have been the favorite today...
Yale poses an impressive challenge, however. The Bulldogs' two front-runners, John Blake and the great Tommy Carroll, have both run better times than Mullin. These two have accounted for the undefeated Elis' victory margins most of the season, although John Morrison, Tom Cathcart, and Bill Cherryholmes have done well also...