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Enrico Caruso was the tenor, Arturo Toscanini the conductor on that November night in 1908 when Giulio Gatti-Casazza mounted his first performance as manager of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. The opera was A'ida, chosen by Gatti out of reverence for his friend and hero, Composer Giuseppe Verdi. Lately Gatti has been accused of being old-fashioned and reactionary. But last week as he began his farewell season at the Metropolitan, the sphinxy Gatti behaved as if he had never heard the carping. Again for the opening night he chose...
Throughout the many changes at the Metropolitan, Verdi's melodies remained fresh and vital. And Gatti, hearing them again last week, was almost happy. The cast was the best he could provide. As the Ethiopian Aïda, Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg sang her music with fine regard for line and feeling. As her Egyptian rival, Maria Olszewska made a voluptuous Amneris. Lawrence M. Tibbett was in blackface but everyone recognized him by the power in his voice, the authority of his acting. Giovanni Martinelli sang the "Celeste Aïda" with all his might, clung to the last...
...performances are bound to eat up the small guarantee fund raised last spring. The long-discussed merger with the Philharmonic-Symphony has been definitely dropped (TIME, Dec. 24). Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath and his associates will soon have to meet and decide upon a successor for Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza...
...kept comparative peace in a hotbed of a dozen nationalities. While his critics have accused him of running an Italian opera house he has produced 15 U. S. works. Though few were worth the price of production, no U. S. operas were ever produced at the Metropolitan before Gatti's regime. For some of his critics it has seemed pertinent that after 26 years in Manhattan he still speaks little English. But Gatti has no gift for languages. Even his French is garbled, often inaccurate...
Ever since the tin-cup campaigns reorganization at the Metropolitan has seemed inevitable. Gatti's resignation, long rumored (TIME, Nov. 28, 1932, et seq.), merely focused in the headlines the necessity for change. When the directors choose to elect Gatti's successor, Chairman Cravath and his associates have a long list of applicants to consider...