Word: scotto
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Metropolitan Opera is an old fogy with antiquated ways. It lives in a shabby, inconvenient old house. Its staging has shown no progress. The same scenery is used again and again. . . . Ottavia Scotto. South American impresario, said all this in effect when he arrived in Manhattan last week on the S. S. France. New York needs a larger opera house, he said, a modern one, with cheaper seats...
Criticisms and prescriptions on the order of Impresario Scotto's have simmered and boiled in Manhattan all season. Many have thought that Radio City offered the logical cure. A new Metropolitan would be built there in another two years, they prophesied. But the Metropolitan appears to be of a different mind. The property belongs to 35 conservative parterre-box-holders who are unwilling to sell out at Depression prices and unwilling, many of them, to let Metropolitan traditions be swallowed up in John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s new commercialized enterprise. Radio City officials, tired of the Met's indecision...