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...Gatti-Casazza, manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company, gave new scenery to the old favorite, Aïda, considered by many to be Verdi's best opera...
...story of love in a tomb in ancient Egypt, is famous for its triumphal march. "Toot-toot-toot", go the horns, and everyone is thrilled. Hitherto this procession has passed under one arch; in Gatti's new scenery the procession has four arches, each of dazzling splendor...
...sources of his victory lay in various factors. Under his guidance the German operas grew better. It might have been noted in the first place that Gatti was an ardent Wagnerite then, as he is today, He had made a specialty of Wagner at La Scala. And he had brought with him a prodigious Wagnerian conductor in Toscanini. And then he was a first-rate master of economical management, the sort of man who would shrink a deficit. It did not take the clever business men on the Board of Directors long to observe that. They supported him vigorously. With...
...victory was complete. He continued in the work of abolishing the deficit. The standard of performances increased constantly. A war with Hammerstein came and, after many qualmy moments, was carried to victorious conclusion. Chicago opera competition was met without any serious loss of prestige. The great stars whom Gatti found waiting for him when he took the directorship passed with the years ? Caruso died and Farrar left the organization. Stars as great have not arisen to take their places, yet the standing of the opera has gone higher. Titta Ruffo and Gallf-Curci have created no new glories...
...Gatti, in the beginning of his reign, placed himself as an enemy of the star system, of the domination of a company by a few famous and favorite singers. He gave emphatic attention to orchestra, chorus, ballet, production. The Metropolitan had always enjoyed fine orchestra conducting. This Gatti sustained with Toscanini and then with his present German conductor, Arthur Bodanzky. In Moranzoni, Papi and Haesselmans he has now a first-rate set of Italian and French conductors. Under Giulio Setti the Metropolitan chorus became a model. The productions ? Samuel Thewman is the present stage manager ? have kept...