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...sing the difficult Casta diva aria from Norma. Thorner interrupted her in the middle of it to call in his friend Enrico Caruso. Caruso prophesied that in two years Rosa would be singing with him. Six months later, as Rosa Ponselle, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut. Impresario Gatti-Casazza picked the name...
...Present were Conductors Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Nikolai Sokoloff, Walter Damrosch, Artur Bodansky, Ernest Schelling, Composers Deems Taylor, George Gershwin, Arthur Shepherd, Aaron Copland, Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza of the Metropolitan Opera, French Ambassador Paul Claudel (librettist of Darius Milhaud's Christopher Columbus...
...they rushed backstage to meet the soprano. "Will you come to America if I can get you an audition with the Metropolitan?" Madame Gay asked breathlessly. Lily Pons said she would and the Zenatellos could not get back to Manhattan fast enough. They hurried to see General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza. He shrugged his shoulders. He hears of many "discoveries" and this one had had only three years' experience in unimportant opera houses, had never sung at all in Paris. "But," said Madame Gay, "if she fails I pay the passage...
Home from Europe last week General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza summoned Manhattan pressmen to his office in the Metropolitan Opera House, majestically informed them that Verdi's A'ida would open the season Oct. 27. Singers: Soprano Maria Mueller, Contralto Karin Branzell, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Baritone Giuseppe de Luca. Conductor: Tullio Serafin. The Metropolitan's season in Brooklyn will begin Oct. 28 with Puccini's Boheme (Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Tenor Edward Johnson); in Philadelphia the same evening with Ponchielli's Gioconda (Soprano Rosa Ponselle, Tenor Beniamino Gigli...
Married. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, 61, general director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, divorced (1928) husband of Frances Alda, Metropolitan diva; secretly; to his friend of 26 years, Metropolitan première danseuse Rosina Galli, 33; at Jersey City, N. J. They first met in Milan when Miss Galli, 7, came to study in the Teatro Alla Scala of which M. Gatti-Casazza was then director...