Word: gatti-casazza
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Once a year, just before the season begins, Manager Gatti issues his summons so that he can answer at a single sitting the plaguing interrogations of the press. New operas are to be given, new singers heard; Manager Gatti-Casazza had promised to give details. Yet the reporters, when they had got inside, found that there was nothing for them to do but stand fidgeting on a green carpet; Mr. Gatti-Casazza was busy. When at length an interpreter (for Mr. Gatti-Casazza understands English but slowly and speaks it more slowly still) led them down a corridor...
...occupies him now? a business that involves 80 principal artists, a chorus of nearly 300, an orchestra of 120, 12 assistant conductors, a ballet of 80 and 700 miscellaneous stagehands, ticket takers, officeworkers, wire-pullers. Each season 4 millions is taken in by the box office. Each season Manager Gatti-Casazza goes to probe in Europe for new operas, new singers. It was about some of these that he read so sonorously to the pressmen while kindly Mr. William Guard, interpreter, translated his words, sentence by sentence...
...Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan, returned from Europe last week, announced that, among other novelties, he will put on four operas never before heard in the U. S.: Manuel de Falla's La Vida Breve, Spontini's Vestale (a work much admired by Wagner, which established Spontini's reputation in France in the early 19th century), Gioudano's La Cena delle Beffe, adapted from the play The Jest, and Stravinsky's Le Rossignol. He raised the price of seats: ground floor, $8.25 from $7.70, "dress" circle $4.95 from...
...welcomed her. After a number of successful seasons, she retired, with becoming dignity and an nounced that her future performances would be limited to concert engagements. Last week, after a concert in Kansas City, she divulged to pressmen that she, now 64, would sing again at the Metropolitan. Director Gatti-Casazza, she prettily confessed, had heard a recent recital of hers in Manhattan, forthwith offered her a contract for the season of 1925-26. Said...
...joke, tagged, unfortunately, with a poor illustration; several pages of skits upon such subjects as after-dinner speaking, radio, the "life of a popular song," the New York Graphic. Columbus's arrival in Manhattan, a column called "Talk of the Town" signed Van Bibber III; an article on Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Director of the Metropolitan Opera Company, by one Golly-Wogg; "The Theatre," by Last Night; "Art," by Froid; "Moving Pictures," by Will Hays Jr.; Wall Street Notes, by Well Known Broker. These Manhattanites chuckled at several jokes which they had chuckled at before, glared at several which they...