| Contents |
At long last, a new home -- Baptism by fire: the inaugural season -- The Met goes modern -- Mozart crowned -- Latins, light and heavy -- Verdi, the provider -- Puccini, the real thing -- Wagner on life support -- Loners -- Bing enters the home stretch -- Tutto é finito: Bing and Verdi -- A tribute to Bing -- Anchors of the new regime -- The old guard -- Teutonic resuscitation -- Comic adventures -- Metropolitan premieres -- Intermission -- Italian protein -- Singles and Strauss -- Finale for a decade -- Levine takes hold -- Operas and casts of the broadcasts, 1966-1976 -- Metropolitan Opera historic broadcast recordings. |
| Abstract |
This volume expands the author's original survey of the broadcasts by examining the decade (1966-1976) that saw the move from the old opera house uptown to the current technological marvel at Lincoln Center. There Rudolf Bing's final six years as general manager gave way to four seasons of management turmoil until in 1976 James Levine, new to the company in 1971, was named music director and took hold of the Met's artistic future. All of this, plus 140 performances, beginning with the controversial opening-night premiere of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, is vividly recaptured by Jackson, a musicologist with an ability to seamlessly combine engaging narrative history with cogent musical analysis and criticism. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-606) and indexes. |
| ISBN | 1574671472 |
| ISBN | 9781574671476 |
