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...First coated-stock ("slick-paper") cover. The man-on-the-cover that week: Giulio Gatti-Casazza, manager of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...
Traubel was five years older than Talley, but when Giulio Gatti-Casazza, general director of the Metropolitan, offered her an audition, she turned it down, saying that she was too young. "I knew I wasn't ready. If the prophet Moses had come down and asked me to sing at the Met I would have said, 'You run your business, I'll run mine.' " She went back to St. Louis and Madame Karst...
Arturo Toscanini is unquestionably the world's greatest opera conductor. But until last week he had not conducted opera anywhere for eight years, in the U.S. for nearly 30. Since 1915, when he quit after a row with General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the maestro has not considered the Metropolitan up to his exacting standard...
Before many seasons were over she was on her way to study in Paris with the parting blessing of the late Otto H. Kahn. In a few years, Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza had signed her for a Metropolitan debut as Mimi...
...railroad, then got a chance to sing King Mark in Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Reale dell' Opera in Rome. Soon his reputation was made. Arturo Toscanini gave him a contract at Milan's famed La Scala opera house. There the late impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza signed him for the Metropolitan. Last year, despite the fact that Basso Pinza had his first citizenship papers, the FBI got irritated at some patriotic Italian speeches he had made, interned him, but released him eleven weeks later...