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When Giulio Gatti-Casazza took his name plate from his office door last spring and for the last time hulked out of the shabby old Metropolitan Opera House, a musical era reached its end in Manhattan. For 27 years Giulio Gatti-Casazza had guided the Metropolitan's affairs shrewdly and cosily. At its best his long regime stood for many a stirring performance, for the presentation of many a top-notch singer, for real opera glamour. The end was different. Though the tired old impresario was granted every honor, his spirit seemed broken when Depression left his Company impoverished...
...square old backstage office which used to be Gatti-Casazza's sat a cheerful youngish-looking man whom opera audiences had known as a romantic Romeo, a wistful Pelleas, a dreamy Peter Ibbetson. Last week Tenor Edward Johnson was dealing with hard realities, amiably settling disputes, busily drawing up schedules for 14 weeks to come. As a singer Tenor Johnson was never a rafter-rending vocalist but as an artist he was possessed of unfailing taste and intelligence, a man on friendly terms with all his colleagues, one who out of working hours could detach himself from opera...
Flagstad was 36 when she ventured beyond the Scandinavian boundaries to Bayreuth, sang small roles the first summer, Sieglinde the next. On the strength of her Bayreuth appearances, Gatti-Casazza and Conductor Artur Bodanzky asked her to come to St. Moritz and sing for them there. The room was small, her voice muffled by heavy hangings. But a new Wagnerian was badly needed and she was given a contract. When Conductor Bodanzky queried her about her acting, she answered modestly: "I don't do very much...
...Ballet. For years the Metropolitan ballet has been slipshod. Ballet mistress was Rosina Galli, second wife of retired Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Not since 1927 has an independent ballet (Casella's La Giara) been given at the Metropolitan. Last week Manager Johnson made ready to cash in on the current popularity of ballet. He announced the engagement of the American Ballet, the lively organization founded by Edward M. M. Warburg and Lincoln Kirstein, with Russian George Balanchine as director (TIME, Dec. 17). From the present Metropolitan ballet, Balanchine will add to his group of 27 dancers, according to Manager...
Having survived Gatti's long regime at the Metropolitan, Maman Savage began to wonder what would become of her under brisk new Director Edward Johnson. In line with a policy of bringing pretty faces and slim figures into the old opera house, Director Johnson lately started weeding oldsters out of the chorus, putting some of them on pensions. Last week, however, "the world's oldest chorus girl" had official assurances that she was too much of a fixture at the Metropolitan to be dropped now, would be kept on at least for another season regardless...