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...Devil (Italian Basso Nicola Rossi-Lemeni) was gusty enough to shake the chandeliers. Visiting Met Stars Licia Albanese and Jan Peerce (as Marguerite and Faust) brought down the house with their prison scene. Nonetheless, there was a sense of melancholy on both sides of the footlights: General Director Gaetano Merola, the man who founded the company 30 years ago and built it to second rank in the U.S. (after the Met), had died two weeks before the opening (TIME, Sept. 7). The prologue's angels sang their harmonies almost as a Requiem...
Died. Gaetano Merola, 72, Neapolitan-born founder-director of the San Francisco Opera Company; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Conductor Merola went to San Francisco in 1921, survived two years in money-losing concert ventures to cajole Nob Hill society and ordinary citizens into backing their own city opera company. He launched his first season in 1923, prospered thereafter...
Signed last May by San Francisco Opera Maestro Gaetano Merola after one hearing in Florence, Soprano Tebaldi flew to San Francisco without pausing in Manhattan, planned to return to Italy after the Los Angeles season. There was just a possibility the Met might still catch up with her. Met Manager Rudolf Bing, with a reservation for another performance of Aïda, is due in San Francisco late this week...
...Francisco society women sewed costumes, donated furniture for props, decorated San Francisco's Civic Auditorium with tree prunings from Golden Gate Park. Merola ended the season with a nervous breakdown...
Nine years later San Franciscans rewarded him with one of the most beautiful and best equipped opera houses in the world. Since then, despite war and economics, the San Francisco Opera has not missed a season. And Merola has assumed the manner of the great impresarios...