Word: casazza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tene- ment life. Last week he announced that he had again changed his mind, that he is now moulding a libretto from George Louis Palmel la Busson Du Maurier's novel Peter Ibbetson, famed in the stage version acted by John Barrymore and Constance Collier. Metropolitan Director Giulio Gatti-Casazza has approved his last choice, ordered the opera complete and ready for delivery by spring...
...roles is Puccini's Girl of the Golden West. What more natural, despite the fact that the opera failed miserably when given in Manhattan with Emmy Destinn and Enrico Caruso in 1910, than that Jeritza should want to give her version in Manhattan, that General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza should bill it as the first revival of the new season...
...21st year as general manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company behind him, his 41st trip across the Atlantic ahead of him, Giulio Gatti-Casazza announced last week his new singers...
...opera her career was soon over, limited to a few performances a season before audiences to whom her singing personality seemed as shallow and mechanical as last year's gossip. But General Manager Gatti-Casazza had another contract ready for her signature, and her country-wide appeal was proved by more than 40 concert contracts. From the spring of 1926 to February 1928, she netted $334,000 on tour. Today she can still get her fee of $3,500 per appearance in the less sophisticated cities. Perhaps she is piqued at the defection of the larger musical centres...
...face, a tortured look. The impulse which has sent women to the nunnery ... is pushing Marion Talley now. It is a psychological case if the farm plan is sincere ; it is another ballyhoo, like the original Chamber of Commerce stunt, if it is not." Said Manager Gatti-Casazza: "I do not understand. I have always been like a father...