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...reigned in conjunction with a Queen of Opera?Jeritza. This lovely lady was likewise the adored of Vienna. Gatti engaged her for New York's Metropolitan. It is said that there were negotiations about Piccaver's coming to the same institution, but that he demanded much money, reasoning that his high place in Viennese opera was secure and that the U.S. is a hard land to conquer, especially for an American. Jeritza came, and he remained the undisputed master of the upper Danube...
This insistence upon stars is interesting when you consider the long continued talk against the star system. Liberalistic folk have said loudly that the star system in opera was an inartistic thing foisted on the American people by foreign managers. Mr. Gatti at the Metropolitan (Manhattan) is now engaged in major attempt to free opera from the thralldom of the star. His principal measure is to engage singers for half a season, so that he will present a procession of many principals instead of having several great favorites dominate the season. However, the people want stars, prefer them to subtle...
...Giulio Gatti-Casazza, impresario of the Metropolitan Opera House, cabled from Milan that he has obtained producing rights for I Compagnacci, a new one-act opera by the Italian composer, Primi Ricitelli, young pupil of Mascagni. The first performance of the work was given at the Costanzi Theatre in Rome in April. The opera will be performed at the Metropolitan next season as a companion piece with Laparra's La Habanera...
...been no financial godsend to its manager, S. Hurok. Any study of operatic finances makes it the more extraordinary that the Metropolitan company, whose policy is not to make profits but to avoid deficits, stands today the world's first operatic institution and earns a considerable surplus. Mr. Gatti has indeed achieved what many in the old days would have deemed a miracle, when he thus transformed the Metropolitan's huge deficit, which was traditional in previous years, from plus to minus...
...Gatti. This impresario is personally very interesting, a man whose grave dignity of face, figure, speech and manner is of public note. His intimates will tell you that his aloof reserve and unapproachableness, which qualities are so valuable in handling high-strung singers, are rooted in shyness, that the. man is a bookworm, with the sensitive timidity of his kind. Gatti began his life as a civil engineer. He has a first-rate mind, with all the shrewd subtlety that one attributes to Italians. He distinctly has the grand manner. It is this, perhaps, that makes him reluctant to talk...