Word: scala
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midst of tumultuous scenes such as only Italian enthusiasts can supply, Arrigo Boito's Nerone was last week performed at the Scala. Toscanini conducted; the important singers were Aureliano Fertile, Rosa Raisa, Marcel Journet. Seats cost from 100 to 800 lire each. News of the opera was flashed by telegraph to Mussolini...
Although an Italian, nurtured amid brilliant stage-lights and full throated choruses in the Scala at Milan, he is still an ardent and perfect Wagnerite. Thus he pleases both the Verdi and Puccini enthusiasts, with their passion for the good old things, and the moderns, who want to get away from the bad old things. He lives solely for his job, arrives at the "House" early each day, leaves late...
...sources of his victory lay in various factors. Under his guidance the German operas grew better. It might have been noted in the first place that Gatti was an ardent Wagnerite then, as he is today, He had made a specialty of Wagner at La Scala. And he had brought with him a prodigious Wagnerian conductor in Toscanini. And then he was a first-rate master of economical management, the sort of man who would shrink a deficit. It did not take the clever business men on the Board of Directors long to observe that. They supported him vigorously. With...
Toscanini is at last putting on at La Scala of Milan Boito Nerone- that opera by the interesting composer of Mefistofele who was at the same time one of the most distinguished poets of Italy and the literary collaborator with Verdi in Otello and Falstaff. For the leading soprano role the conductor has selected Rosa Raisa, dramatic soprano of the Chicago Opera Company. This, of course, is a distinguished honor and one well deserved by the lady of the great ringing voice. Time was when the season's list of singers at La Scala held the elite...
Meanwhile other curious things had been occurring. Fascism was then a very small thing in Italy. Socialism was raising its voice with loud and often triumphant outcries. The socialist newspapers, noting the approaching opening of La Scala, were inspired with an idea. They printed large articles saying that in the past the boxes of the opera house had been occupied by the hated capitalists, but now a new state of things had arrived and no such anti-democratic thing would be tolerated. They demanded that the opera boxes be turned over to the proletariat. This agitation produced a result that...