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Article: Sir Rudolf Bing Dies; Ran Metropolitan Opera
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- The Washington Post
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- September 3, 1997
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Sir Rudolf Bing, the acerbic and autocratic impresario whose
personal taste and steely determination brought New York's
Metropolitan Opera to new heights of success during his more than
two decades as general manager, died yesterday in Yonkers, N.Y. He
was 95.
A spokesman for the Met said Bing, who had Alzheimer's
disease, died at St. Joseph's Hospital. Once the subject of
protracted legal battles over his care, he had been living at the
Hebrew Home for the Aged in the Bronx.
As the man who ruled the nation's flagship opera house from
1950 to 1972, Bing inevitably influenced opera throughout the
nation.
He hired and fired divas and tenors, went eyeball to eyeball
with prima ...