The Chapin Period 1972–75

Abstract

Göran Gentele, who had risen to international prominence as a régisseur and as intendant of Stockholm’s Royal Opera, succeeded Rudolf Bing as general manager of the Metropolitan Opera. On July 18, 1972, however, Gentele was killed in an automobile accident during a brief vacation in Sardinia. In the emergency, New York-born Schuyler G. Chapin, a recently appointed assistant who had served as vice president of Lincoln Center and who had been associated with Leonard Bernstein’s Amberson Productions, was named acting general manager. On May 9, 1973, Chapin would be accorded full title.