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However, there was not always such clear sailing, and the company was to experience a series of ups and downs in the first few years of the 1960s.
Initially, there was further success: bringing Igor Stravinsky to Washington was the work of Bliss Herbert, then the Artistic Administrator of the Santa Fe Opera who had been involved in that company's early years when the composer regularly visited Santa Fe.
However, the first Stravinsky production-The Rake's Progress-was " the most " ill-starred " opera in the Society's history ", largely the result of singers ' illnesses.
But a later double bill of Stravinsky conducting Le Rossignol ( along with Schoenberg's Erwartung ) was a triumph.

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