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...social lioness, jewels agleam, stalked her stately way into a well-known box; this distinguished musician, that famed diplomat?they kept the audience craning necks, peering into programs, discussing personalities. The most brilliant gathering of the, year, had assembled to hear the first U. S. opera commissioned by Gatti-Casazza, The King's Henchman. A half-hour before the tall yellow curtains parted, the standees were under full pressure. Many of these people were skeptical. They said: "Gatti is a shrewd impresario. He will tickle U. S. vanity by presenting native opera, if they insist upon it. This...
Other "native" operas had come through competition for prizes, forced hot-house flowers, that wilted soon after exposure. Some were independent experiments, brilliant in spots, dull on the whole. An opera requires musicianship but it fails without the accompaniment of theatre. So Signor Gatti-Casazza selected the creators of the Henchman. Edna St. Vincent Millay, poetess with a dramatic sense, was to write the libretto (TIME, Jan. 17); Deems Taylor, composer of concert music, onetime music critic of the N. Y. World, would provide the score...
...Conn., Rosa Ponselle gave a joint concert with her sister Carmela. Four thousand people applauded. Between the acts they gossiped. Only a few years ago these girls were unknown . . . common school education . . . vaudeville songsters. But Rosa came to Manhattan, took singing lessons from William Thorner. He, recognizing talent, visited Gatti-Casazza, announced a "find." "Let me hear her," answered the Director. He did, was impressed, advised her to work up one or two roles. She made her debut with Caruso, after six months of vocal instruction. Carmela is also a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company. The Hartford concert...
Another customer would chatter away in Italian, confide an impresario's worries over people of temperament?and Carlo can still have a seat at the Metropolitan whenever he wants one?compliments of Signer Gatti-Casazza...
Thirteen-year old Robbye Cook, Pensacola, Fla., songstress, secured an audition last week, the first for one so young, before Impresario Gatti-Casazza and Chairman-Director Kahn of the Metropolitan Opera, in Manhattan. In the wings of the huge auditorium, empty save for these gentlemen, her aunt and newsgatherers, she doffed her plaid coat; on the stage sang Danny Boy and two modern numbers. Signor Gatti-Casazza delegated Mr. Kahn to report; the latter told her to rest for a while, study, come back after a year or two to sing for him again...