Word: casazza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thirteen-year old Robbye Cook, Pensacola, Fla., songstress, secured an audition last week, the first for one so young, before Impresario Gatti-Casazza and Chairman-Director Kahn of the Metropolitan Opera, in Manhattan. In the wings of the huge auditorium, empty save for these gentlemen, her aunt and newsgatherers, she doffed her plaid coat; on the stage sang Danny Boy and two modern numbers. Signor Gatti-Casazza delegated Mr. Kahn to report; the latter told her to rest for a while, study, come back after a year or two to sing for him again...
Giulio Gatti-Casazza, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company, sat in his Manhattan office last week and fingered the ends of a thousand strings. Very important strings they were, strings whose slightest twitch could set hundreds of singers warbling, fiddles bowing, brasses mooing
...Gatti heaves a mighty sigh. He might quote a few figures, that of his 93 principals 37 are Americans, that the strength of his native wing is three times that of the German, twice that of the Italian, 33 times that of the French. But being Mr. Gatti-Casazza and little given to explanation in English, he will probably throw up his hands, say "Find me an American Caruso!" turn on his heel and go about his business, imperturbable again, dignified, the very personification of authority...
...music with golden success. Although long awaited, the youngest in line, The Countess Maritza, disclosed nothing more sensational than a former Metropolitan prima donna of human dimensions. Indeed, shapely Yvonne D'Arle's skipping and gestures are more suggestive of the Shubert girl than the Gatti-Casazza stalwart. Had she injected less grand opera bravura into her lyric cadenzas, she might have proved even more effective...
What lies in store for patrons of the Metropolitan Opera behind the quizzical title, The King's Henchman, remains entirely to be seen and heard. But it heads the prospectus of Director Gatti-Casazza and there was a stir last year when its authors, Composer Deems Taylor and Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, were commissioned to contrive an all-native opera. The music is finished; Deems Taylor is in Europe. And last week came news that, despite the ravages of a long illness, the pale and slender young librettist had finished a first draft...