The New Met: Countdown to Curtain

1966, 53 mins

Credits

Barry Wood

Executive Producer

Robert Drew

Producer

Donald Voorhees

Musical Director

Mike Jackson

Associate Producer

Tom Bywaters

Associate Producer

Nat Wilkes

Associate Producer

Manager of Production Operations

M. Clay Adams

Abbot Mills

Photographer

Mort Heilig

Photographer

Al Wertheimer

Photographer

Robert Hagensen

Photographer

Darwin Deen

Photographer

Edward Horton

Photographer

Frank Calabria

Photographer

Harold Posner

Photographer

Peter Powell

Photographer

David Blumgrat

Sound

Harold Beiben

Sound

Richard Wiggins

Sound

Joe Slifkin

Sound

Walter Hess

Editor

Nancy Sen

Editorial Consultant

Robin Macdonald

Researcher

Joseph Julian

Narrator

Jean Swain

Production Coordinator

Awards

1967 CiINE Golden Eagle

First Prize, 1967 International Documentary Cinema Exhibition, Bilboa, Spain

Special Mention, 1967 International Cinema Festival, Gulf of Salerno, Sicily

Inside the frenzy of preparing for opening night at the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center.

Backstage with Franco Zeffirelli and Rudolph Bing as multiple mechanical difficulties snag rehearsals.

Marc Chagall stops by only to see that his giant murals were not hung the way he intended in the lobby.

Leontyne Price is engaging as she prepares for her commanding starring role in Barber’s “Antony and Cleopatra.”

Produced for Henry Jaffe Enterprises, the film was broadcast on November 20, 1966 on NBC’s “Bell Telephone Hour.”

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