Word: gatty
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout the many changes at the Metropolitan, Verdi's melodies remained fresh and vital. And Gatti, hearing them again last week, was almost happy. The cast was the best he could provide. As the Ethiopian Aïda, Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg sang her music with fine regard for line and feeling. As her Egyptian rival, Maria Olszewska made a voluptuous Amneris. Lawrence M. Tibbett was in blackface but everyone recognized him by the power in his voice, the authority of his acting. Giovanni Martinelli sang the "Celeste Aïda" with all his might, clung to the last...
...performances are bound to eat up the small guarantee fund raised last spring. The long-discussed merger with the Philharmonic-Symphony has been definitely dropped (TIME, Dec. 24). Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath and his associates will soon have to meet and decide upon a successor for Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza...
...kept comparative peace in a hotbed of a dozen nationalities. While his critics have accused him of running an Italian opera house he has produced 15 U. S. works. Though few were worth the price of production, no U. S. operas were ever produced at the Metropolitan before Gatti's regime. For some of his critics it has seemed pertinent that after 26 years in Manhattan he still speaks little English. But Gatti has no gift for languages. Even his French is garbled, often inaccurate...
Until Depression Manager Gatti made Metropolitan performances pay for themselves. And although he engaged the most expensive singers he managed to set aside a surplus of $1,000,000 which lasted him into 1932. Gatti's credo, then as now, came from Verdi who once said to him: "The theatre is meant to be full-not empty." When the surplus was exhausted Metropolitan performances necessarily suffered...
First-nighters thought Gatti might break his rule last week, take a curtain call with the singers and the new conductor. But Gatti took his first and last bow from the Metropolitan stage in 1908, standing proudly between his friends Toscanini and Caruso...