Word: gatty
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...board chairman, felt called upon last week to make his first significant speech from the throne. Rumors have had the Metropolitan so hard hit financially that it could not even finish the present season, its directors so dissatisfied with the conservative, practical policies of Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza that they were just waiting for the expiration of his contract (April 1935) to appoint some such character as Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel to take his job. That meant surely a company reorganized and moved to Radio City...
...most people were surprised last week to learn that it, too, had seriously felt Depression, that unless expenses were cut the quality of performances would have to suffer. Metropolitan artists behaved then in a manner worthy of the Company's proud traditions. Regardless of his contract, Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza offered to take 10% less salary. Singers followed suit. Metropolitan performances cost from $14,000 to $15,000 apiece. Another help in time of trouble may be the revenue from Saturday matinee broadcasts. Long adamant on the subject of radio, the Metropolitan has at last succumbed. Chicago Civic Opera...
...sing the difficult Casta diva aria from Norma. Thorner interrupted her in the middle of it to call in his friend Enrico Caruso. Caruso prophesied that in two years Rosa would be singing with him. Six months later, as Rosa Ponselle, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut. Impresario Gatti-Casazza picked the name...
...Present were Conductors Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Nikolai Sokoloff, Walter Damrosch, Artur Bodansky, Ernest Schelling, Composers Deems Taylor, George Gershwin, Arthur Shepherd, Aaron Copland, Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza of the Metropolitan Opera, French Ambassador Paul Claudel (librettist of Darius Milhaud's Christopher Columbus...
...they rushed backstage to meet the soprano. "Will you come to America if I can get you an audition with the Metropolitan?" Madame Gay asked breathlessly. Lily Pons said she would and the Zenatellos could not get back to Manhattan fast enough. They hurried to see General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza. He shrugged his shoulders. He hears of many "discoveries" and this one had had only three years' experience in unimportant opera houses, had never sung at all in Paris. "But," said Madame Gay, "if she fails I pay the passage...