Rudolf Bing

Rudolf Bing
General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera
In office
1950–1972
Preceded byEdward Patrick Johnson
Succeeded byGöran Gentele
Personal details
Born
Rudolf Franz Joseph Bing

(1902-01-09)January 9, 1902
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Austria)
DiedSeptember 2, 1997(1997-09-02) (aged 95)
Yonkers, New York, U.S.
Spouses
Nina Schelemskaya-Schlesnaya
(m. 1928; died 1983)
Carroll Douglass
(m. 1987; ann. 1989)
EducationUniversity of Vienna
OccupationOpera impresario

Sir Rudolf Bing, KBE (January 9, 1902 – September 2, 1997) was an Austrian-born British opera impresario who worked in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, including as General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1950 to 1972. He was naturalized as a British subject in 1946 and was knighted in 1971, although he spent decades living in the United States, where he died.


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