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...Impresario Carlos Montalban, a lean, mustachioed Mexican actor-promoter (and older brother of Cinemactor Ricardo Montalban), pays his big names upwards of $10,000 a week, plus their fares from Latin America. Regardless of how much stage blood is spattered around, he woos the family trade by keeping the shows clean. (Backstage, four large signs remind the performers that the audience is "very respectable and religious...
...mentioned his ballet The Legend of Joseph, which Impresario Sergei Diaghilev had first produced in Paris and London in 1914. Joseph meant something special to Max Reiter: as a young man he had played the celesta in the Berlin Opera orchestra while Strauss himself conducted it. Reiter demanded the honor of being the first to perform the new version when it was ready...
...have encountered no greater voice or vocalist ... a true contralto of enormous range . . . Where have the Metropolitan's talent scouts been that they have neglected to engage [Elena Nikolaidi]?" Said the Times: ". . . Rare brilliance . . . eminent musicality . . . velvety smoothness." By 10 a.m., phone calls were buzzing in from Impresario S. Hurok, Chicago, San Francisco-and the Met itself...
Bustling about in her monkey-fur jacket and top-heavy hats, her pince-nez perched precariously on her thin nose, Impresario "Cissy" Schultz has long been as much a part of Seattle's musical scene as the musicians. For the past 25 years, she has run nearly everything musical in town except the symphony. Last summer when even that finally fell her way, one board member raged: "She always has wanted to get her clutches on the orchestra." Cissy rasped, in a voice sometimes compared to the sound of tearing canvas: "These big-business tycoons are just little boys...
Lock Up the Safe. Actually, the musicians, not Cissy, had done the clutching. To help them out in their first year, she gave them, for a small percentage ("I still have to keep Cissy in ham & eggs"), use of both her Moore Theater and her talents as an impresario, which even her enemies admit are considerable...