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In the mid-1960's, it appeared that the Met's Rudolf Bing had scored a great coup by engaging Herbert von Karajan for a complete Ring cycle. Benjamin Ivry traces the dramatic dealings that followed.
It all started with a simple phone call--"out of the blue," Metropolitan Opera general manager Rudolf Bing later told The New York Times--to his Paris hotel room in the summer of 1965. Maestro Herbert von Karajan was on the line, asking if Bing wanted him to stage and conduct his version of Wagner's Ring at the Met. The answer was yes.
As artistic director of the Salzburg Easter Festival, Karajan was performing his Ring there, as well as recording it, thereby ...
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