Word: merola
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opened the first municipal opera house in the U. S., one of the world's finest music theatres (TIME, Oct. 17). The chorus was composed of local amateurs. Orchestramen were borrowed from the San Francisco Symphony. The whole enterprise was characteristic of the audacity with which Impresario Gaetano Merola rounded up a San Francisco Opera Association ten years ago, collected membership dues running from $50 to $100 a head and proceeded to put on ambitious performances with rehearsals so sketchy as to be hair-raising...
Last week, with most U. S. cities regarding opera as a luxury to be forsworn and even New York worried about its Metropolitan, Impresario Merola announced still bigger things for San Francisco. Next autumn he will have a ten-week season. To prepare for it he opened an opera chorus school, the only one in the U. S. outside New York. He appointed Adolph Bolm who used to dance with the Diaghilev Ballet to start ballet classes. Said Signor Merola: "We are going to teach in our school everything that has to do with the lyric stage. . . . We have...
...auditorium is built on the European plan. It seats 3,285, one-third again as many as the Paris Opera, but 200 less than the Chicago house, 500 less than the Metropolitan. Scalpers are getting $100 a pair for tickets, a fact which greatly delights Impresario Gaetano Merola, for last spring his committee was hesitant about putting on the 1932 season. After nine years' experience with Merola they should have known better than to hesitate...
...Merola is no Toscanini but he is probably the world's nerviest, luckiest conductor. Some years ago he gave open-air opera at Stanford Stadium, lost his Italian backers a tidy sum. But at just the right time each evening a full moon rose...
...season (1923) he went to the hospital with a nervous breakdown. He had put on performances with the sketchiest possible rehearsals. He does the same thing now but he lets the rest of his staff worry. With subscribers back of him, he concentrates on picking his singers.*This year Merola has allotted his opening night to Soprano Claudia Muzio who can be depended upon for a sure-fire performance of Tosca. Then will come the night which he hopes to make as memorable as the Christmas Eve when Tetrazzini trilled at Lotta's Fountain. Lily Pons will make...