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Gatti. The season finds the Metropolitan high in the joys of tranquillity, prosperity, prestige. It is the 16th year of Mr. Giulio Gatti-Casazza's directorship. Few cares there are to vex the brows of impresario and Board of Directors. Deficits, the bane of opera, are not heard of. There are no violent dissensions that break upon the public ear. People of musing memory may be diverted to go back to the very different state of things that prevailed during Mr. Gatti's first years...
...Milan, Signer Giulio Gatti-Casazza, a marine engineer by profession, had taken hold of La Seal a Opera House in a time when that historic institution was in a bad situation, in a couple of years had rehabilitated it in an extraordinary manner, had brought a regime of order and economy, at the same time had increased the quality of performances immensely. Here was the obvious man for the internationally minded Directors of the Metropolitan. Many of their customers thought that they should have patriotically selected an American, but they seemed of the opinion that it was better to save...
...gave emphatic attention to orchestra, chorus, ballet, production. The Metropolitan had always enjoyed fine orchestra conducting. This Gatti sustained with Toscanini and then with his present German conductor, Arthur Bodanzky. In Moranzoni, Papi and Haesselmans he has now a first-rate set of Italian and French conductors. Under Giulio Setti the Metropolitan chorus became a model. The productions ? Samuel Thewman is the present stage manager ? have kept to a high standard...
...Dictator's scheme for "electoral reform" (TIME, July 2, July 9) . Don Sturzo resigned the leadership of his powerful Party tamely, declaring that he did not wish to cause trouble over the relations between the Partito and the Church. He will be replaced by a Committee of three, Giulio Rodino (former Minister of War), Giovanni Gronchi (former Under Secretary of State), Signor Spadaro (Party Committeeman). No member of this Triumvirate is sufficiently astute or strong to withstand Mussolini's extra-Party steamroller. For the past six months rumors have been current that Mussolini, by restoring Catholic education...
...Giulio Gatti-Casazza, impresario of the Metropolitan Opera House, cabled from Milan that he has obtained producing rights for I Compagnacci, a new one-act opera by the Italian composer, Primi Ricitelli, young pupil of Mascagni. The first performance of the work was given at the Costanzi Theatre in Rome in April. The opera will be performed at the Metropolitan next season as a companion piece with Laparra's La Habanera...