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...Gatti. The season finds the Metropolitan high in the joys of tranquillity, prosperity, prestige. It is the 16th year of Mr. Giulio Gatti-Casazza's directorship. Few cares there are to vex the brows of impresario and Board of Directors. Deficits, the bane of opera, are not heard of. There are no violent dissensions that break upon the public ear. People of musing memory may be diverted to go back to the very different state of things that prevailed during Mr. Gatti's first years...
...Giulio Gatti-Casazza, impresario of the Metropolitan Opera House, cabled from Milan that he has obtained producing rights for I Compagnacci, a new one-act opera by the Italian composer, Primi Ricitelli, young pupil of Mascagni. The first performance of the work was given at the Costanzi Theatre in Rome in April. The opera will be performed at the Metropolitan next season as a companion piece with Laparra's La Habanera...
...Kahn, Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera House Board of Directors, in announcing that Vice President Coolidge had accepted the chairmanship of the Jonas Chickering Centennial Celebration. Among others joining in the nation-wide move to pay tribute to the father of the American pianoforte are David Belasco, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, William Cardinal O'Connell, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Kreisler...
...Gatti-Casazza, of the Metropolitan, is full of surprises. His latest was a performance, for the first time in America, of Schilling's Mona Lisa. The opera is an ingenious attempt to explain the smile on the face of Da Vinci's famous portrait. The prologue and epilogue present a young wife with her old husband, sight-seeing in Florence. Both parts are taken by newcomers to the Metropolitan - Barbara Kemp, of the Berlin Opera, and Michael Bohnen, of the Munich Opera. The roles are dual. In the two acts of the piece they appear as Mona Lisa...