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In reply to the discussion: The Opera House: Trailer [View all]

BeyondGeography

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3. So after that documentary I researched Rudolf Bing
Wed Oct 31, 2018, 10:08 PM
Oct 2018

and came up with this obit on his successor who died tragically before his first season; that’s how Schuyler Chapin got the job. Front page news on the NYT:

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/07/19/archives/gentele-head-of-met-dies-with-2-children-in-crash-was-bings.html

He would have been a great one, IMO.

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