#Cessre Siepi

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Rudolf Bing, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, center, and singers who starred in a refurbished, re-costumed and shortened version of La Forza del Destino to open the Met's 68th season, November 10, 1952. Holding a backstage confab after the final curtain are Cesare Siepi, bass; Zinka Milanov, soprano; Bing; Richard Tucker, tenor, and Leonard Warren, baritone.

Photo: Tom Fitzsimmons for the AP

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