The Metropolitan Opera's Margaret Webster hoped "that the [opening night] audience will not look for anything especially startling or different in [our new] Aïda, for I don't think they will find it." That, as General Manager Rudolf Bing later remarked, was only because Margaret Webster had never seen Aïda before. To him, "it looks completely differentand I have seen it before."
Those in the gala audience who had also seen Aïda before were a good bet to side with Rudolf Bing on opening night this week. They would not even have to look around for something startling and different: the stunning new...
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