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During one of the intermissions William Guard, kindly lieutenant of Manager Gatti-Casazza, called pressmen into his office, informed them that they had been wrong to say that La Vestale was being presented for the first time in the U. S.; it was given in the fall of 1828, he said, by the French Opera Company of New Orleans...
...enter other professions. Some, broadening and deepening as the years pass, make excellent mothers to rich little children; others keep their figures and their friends and go on entertaining long after their footlight days are over; a few seek fame. Last week one Mary Lewis was engaged by Gatti-Casazza to sing with the Metropolitan Opera. Before her debut in January as Mimi in La Bohème she will give a concert in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan...
...said Gatti-Casazza...
...musical reporters bustled away to tap out the ideas that had come to them while they listened to the Manager Gatti's rolling syllables. The fact that he has engaged fewer new singers than ever before is inevitable, they pointed out; he has most of the good ones now. But significant is the fact that in the thin receiving-line of operatic debutantes there are three Americans. This is Manager Gatti-Casazza's second answer to the drone of those who protest that the Metropolitan ignores native talent. His first?a remark made last year?was: "Find me an American...
Cosmopolite, metropolite, he conceives the function of the company to be the giving of opera in the best possible manner. This is also the conception of Manager Gatti-Casazza; their consultations are cooperative, for where Mr. Kahn's Lincoln-waits?there waits harmony...