Word: tietjens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Municipal Opera, never able to shake deficits, dissensions and accusations of poor management, suffered a serious blow last fall when its director, Heinz Tietjen, retired. The company turned to Ebert, who gained fame as a director of the standout Glyndebourne Opera. It was able to lure him from the University of Southern California, where he had taught opera for six years. "It was heartbreaking to educate young singers only to have them faced with unemployment," Ebert said, in explaining why he left the comparatively soft job for a tough one. "There just aren't enough companies to take them...