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Association of Jewish Refugees honours Glyndebourne manager Sir Rudolf Bing
August 18, 2016 14:30
Sir Rudolf Bing, the late music impresario, has been honoured with a commemorative plaque at Glyndebourne.
Sir Rudolf, who arrived in the UK as a refugee to the Nazis, was general manager of the Glyndebourne opera festival between 1936 and 1949, and later founded the Edinburgh International Festival.
The plaque was commissioned by the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) as part of the organisation’s 75th anniversary celebrations.
Sir Rudolf was born in Vienna in 1902 and studied at the University of Vienna before working in Berlin and Darmstadt as a manager of opera houses.
He came to Britain in 1934, a year before the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws. He became a British subject in 1946 and was knighted in 1971. He was also general manager of the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1949.
He died in 1997.
The AJR represents and supports Jewish victims of Nazi oppression who rebuilt their lives in Britain.
Its plaque scheme aims to honour Jewish émigrés from Nazism who made a significant contribution to their adopted homeland.
AJR trustee Frank Harding said Sir Rudolf had left an “indelible mark” on British culture.
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