Word: traviatas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Traviata: "The tale of a cutie with a cough and no four-way pills...
Giuseppe Verdi came from peasant stock and never lost the blunt imprint. But the composer of some of the most moving and impassioned operas ever written-Trovatore, Traviata, Rigoletto, Aïda, Otello-remained a hard man only outwardly. Verdi's music eloquently tells the story of the inner man. And so, in a way, did his will...
...Webster. He quickly followed that with an entirely new mounting of The Flying Dutchman, done almost equally well. To make a full season, Bing had to reach into the standard repertory (and the warehouse) for operas he had had neither time nor money to rebuild, e.g., Tristan, Faust, Trovatore, Traviata. But except for Traviata and Faust, which most critics panned, even the old productions came through with some grace. Finally came the success of the brilliant new Fledermaus, restaged by Broadway's and Hollywood's Garson Kanin. Said one beaming and relaxed Met director last week...
...Rudi Bing, the paradox of the old Met is the fact that, despite the old sets and old costumes, standbys such as Traviata and Trovatore "still sell out the house." His task, he thinks, is "to get the public to demand new and better productions." He has to admit, from box-office records, that so far "the public just does not care." But, says Rudi Bing, with the look of a man setting out to do something about it: "I do care...
...Bing set out last spring to improve the "visual aspects" of the Metropolitan Opera, one of the first eyesores he operated on was the Met's stumbling opera ballet. Since dancing appears in some of the most popular operas in the standard repertory, e.g., Carmen, Tannhäuser, Traviata, La Gioconda, Bing aimed to get the Met variety considerably higher on its toes. He handed the responsibility to Lucia Chase's Ballet Theatre; Lucia, in turn, delegated the job to her principal choreographer, greying, London-born Antony (Pillar of Fire) Tudor...