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...chief reason for the Met's enthusiasm for its new manager is his own crisp air of enthusiasm. After 27 years of the autocratic rule of Giulio Gatti-Casazza and 15 years of worries and wartime headaches under Edward Johnson, the old Metropolitan has suddenly become, as one tenor put it, "a happy house...
...money troubles, overage scenery, outdated lighting and staging techniques, under-enthusiastic singing and acting. But at least he will get plenty of advice. The Daily News's John Chapman spoke for the other critics: "Man and boy, I've been telling Johnson and [Giulio] Gatti-Casazza before him how to run the opera house, and you don't think I'm going to stop just because Bing is going...
...First coated-stock ("slick-paper") cover. The man-on-the-cover that week: Giulio Gatti-Casazza, manager of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...
Traubel was five years older than Talley, but when Giulio Gatti-Casazza, general director of the Metropolitan, offered her an audition, she turned it down, saying that she was too young. "I knew I wasn't ready. If the prophet Moses had come down and asked me to sing at the Met I would have said, 'You run your business, I'll run mine.' " She went back to St. Louis and Madame Karst...
Arturo Toscanini is unquestionably the world's greatest opera conductor. But until last week he had not conducted opera anywhere for eight years, in the U.S. for nearly 30. Since 1915, when he quit after a row with General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the maestro has not considered the Metropolitan up to his exacting standard...