The Metropolitan Opera’s Rudolf Bing is a fastidious Viennese who has little use for the Teutonic excesses of Richard Wagner. But this season he bravely buckled down to putting on Wagner’s ...

For his overhaul job, General Manager Rudolf Bing had turned to the Met’s own staff of directors and set designers. Staff Director Hans Busch planned to give “Cav,” a turbulent little ...

The music icon and his second wife, Kathryn Grant, raised their three children in the luxurious 11-bedroom, 15-bath estate in ...

Bing Crosby was a busy man during this period, starting a family, a film career (notably with Bob Hope) and literally saving the music industry during the Great Depression in 1934 when he ...

In 1948, half of the recorded music played on the air was by Bing Crosby. He also was a major motion picture star and a top-selling recording artist. However, while you might remember Bing for his ...