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...highlights from the gala will be broadcast over CBS-TV on Sunday, April 30. On June 30, after the company's spring tour and a three-week Verdi Festival back at the Met, Bing will close the libretto on the second-longest general managership in Met history (Giulio Gatti-Casazza's reign lasted from...
...productions, he undeniably brought the company back from the edge of artistic bankruptcy and vanishing prestige to which it had fallen under the regime of the late Edward Johnson. By the time Bing quits, he will have lasted 22 seasons−longer than any other general manager except Giulio Gatti-Casazza (1908-35). But if charm counts for anything, and it certainly does among the matrons and patrons of the Met, Gentele should be able to match Rudi Bing and endure for quite a while himself. He is a man of slender elegance with a graceful manner and clear, purposeful...
...praise Gatti-Casazza, the impossible has dawned. Last week, in an explosion of unabashed pride born of years of frustration, the Metropolitan Opera formally opened a stunning new $45.7 million house in Lincoln Center. And what a house to come home...
Fresh off the boat from Italy, gourd-shaped Giulio Gatti-Casazza heads straight for Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. As the newly appointed general manager of the Met, he is eager to have a look at his new home. Mama mia! What he sees is enough to curl his beard. It's bad enough that the exterior looks like a brewery. But the backstage area is so cramped that it can hardly accommodate a P.T.A. pageant. Principal singers, he finds to his horror, have to rehearse in the ladies' powder room; scenery is stacked behind the building...
That was in 1908. Gatti-Casazza stayed on for 27 years, waiting patiently-but his singers never got out of the powder room. Not that the management wasn't serious about that new house. Indeed, the Be-Patient-New-Met's-A-Comin' recitative echoed through the old house more regularly than the Anvil Chorus. At one time or another, sites for a new Met were planned on 49th Street, 57th Street, 59th Street, 63rd Street, 110th Street, Washington Square, on the ground floor of the Seagram Building and underneath the Queensboro Bridge...