Word: gattis
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Grave Gatti Rules the Proud and Profitable Metropolitan Manhattan Bulk. The close of the opera season in Manhattan brought the usual many long articles of sum mary and commentary from the critics, and might have inspired the philosopher with a few reflections. Perhaps the most striking feature to be noted in a review of the 1922-23 Metropolitan season is the large number of performances and of operas performed. In 23 weeks Mr. Gatti gave 169 performances of 40 different operas. When you con sider the amount of preparation and rehearsal that even a moderately spectacular opera needs, these...
Money. As to financial details, we are in the dark. The Metropolitan makes public no financial statement, but it is known that the opera company earns a clear profit, has been a paying proposition, in fact, for a number of seasons, since the early years of Mr. Gatti's directorship. It was reported that the profit for last season was $200,000. For this year the earnings are said to be less, because of new singers and new productions; something more than $100,000, says rumor. However, these sums are not called profits by the Metropolitan company. The name...
...Kahn, Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera House Board of Directors, in announcing that Vice President Coolidge had accepted the chairmanship of the Jonas Chickering Centennial Celebration. Among others joining in the nation-wide move to pay tribute to the father of the American pianoforte are David Belasco, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, William Cardinal O'Connell, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Kreisler...
...Gatti-Casazza, of the Metropolitan, is full of surprises. His latest was a performance, for the first time in America, of Schilling's Mona Lisa. The opera is an ingenious attempt to explain the smile on the face of Da Vinci's famous portrait. The prologue and epilogue present a young wife with her old husband, sight-seeing in Florence. Both parts are taken by newcomers to the Metropolitan - Barbara Kemp, of the Berlin Opera, and Michael Bohnen, of the Munich Opera. The roles are dual. In the two acts of the piece they appear as Mona Lisa...
...because she is an American, by birth, study, and career. It is to be doubted that any singer has ever made a debut with the fortunate circumstances under which Rosa Ponselle made hers. She had been a cabaret singer in New Haven, Conn. She was just out of vaudeville. Gatti Casazza thought he had found a second Farrar. For her first operatic appearance, the New Haven girl opened the Metropolitan season singing opposite Caruso in Forza del Destino. She had an enormous triumph that night. Since then her success has languished. She is an American. Perhaps...