Word: gatty
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GREAT MOTHER FOREST-Attilio Gatti -Scribner ($3.75). Italian explorer's lively account of his expedition to the Kibali-Ituri Forest in the Belgian Congo. Well-illustrated (photographs...
...closed in April 1935 when Giulio Gatti-Casazza took down his nameplate and stepped forever out of the general manager's office. For 27 years, Gatti had laid down the law to the most famous opera company in the world. He had seen that company once proud & secure. He had cut down his budget on high-priced singers. He had watched the Met struggle through Depression years by shortening its season, humble itself in a desperate tin-cup campaign. Few weeks before Gatti's resignation, the harassed Opera Board signed over its independence to the Juilliard Musical Foundation...
First sign of Juilliard influence was the appointment of Herbert Witherspoon, old-time Metropolitan basso and later a member of the Juilliard teaching staff, as Gatti's successor. General Manager Witherspoon had worn his title for two weeks when he dropped dead of coronary thrombosis. Tenor Edward Johnson, long a popular favorite, stepped immediately into the post. Confronting him were union difficulties, many an important contract, many that had not been signed...
Whatever they thought of the spring season, people were more enthusiastic last winter than they had been since Depression. For this Soprano Kirsten Flagstad did more than her share. The big, blonde Norwegian had blazed overnight into Metropolitan supremacy in the last weeks of Gatti's reign. Hailed as one of the great Isoldes in history, she came to Johnson for her first full season, fortifying what was already the finest German wing in the world...
Fremstad's voice showed occasional wear & tear, but when she left the Metropolitan in 1914 her star was high. Manager Giulo Gatti-Casazza invited her to return on her own terms if she would only relearn all her Wagner roles in English, on the mere chance that subscribers might be willing to accept great music if it was not sung in German. Fremstad refused. When the Wagner operas were reinstated after the War, her health was broken and since then she has been much too smart to attempt a feeble, worn-out comeback...