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2019-11-26 14:03:32
Metropolitan Opera Will Keep Peter Gelb Through 2027
“The five-year extension [of his contract as general manager] … will give Mr. Gelb at least a 21-year reign at the opera house, the largest performing arts organization in the United States. The only Met general managers with longer tenures than that have been Giulio Gatti-Casazza (who held the post for 27 years beginning in […]
2016-09-23 09:20:27
Geh such dir die Stars vom vergangenen Jahr!
[…] gorgeous pageantry upon eye and ear.” One suspects this gifted writer would never have foreseen Meyerbeer’s fall from fashion. Still, Smith found excitement in the debut of soprano Amelita Galli-Curci. [H]ow fascinating is Amelita’s impersonation of Violetta, already made familiar during her association with the visiting Chicago Opera Company! How imaginatively vivacious in the first act; how pathetic in the second; how tragic in the last. It was fitting, indeed, that [general manager] Giulio Gatti-Casazza should bring forward his latest “star” in Traviata. For surely no other role reveals her own peculiar powers, histrionic as well as vocal, to greater advantage; none permits her to disclose more affectingly the characteristic delicacy of her art, the essentially feminine charm of her persuasions. Beniamino Gigli and De Luca supplied the masculine charm. 1926: Another work not long for the Met’s repertory inaugurated the 43rd season, as a 34-year-old bass made […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-06-05 11:43:27
The tenor who sang more roles than Domingo
A Viennese website has raised the ghost of Andreas Dippel (1866-1932), a member of Mahler’s cast, who is reckoned to have sung 162 tenor roles in Italian, German and French. The repertoire, in those days, was larger, more adventurous and still growing. The numbers are contested. Some authorities credit him with *just* 158 roles. Domingo has performed 147 roles as a tenor and baritone. Dippel went on to be joint manager of the Metropolitan Opera from 1908 to 1910 with Gatti-Casazza, who deputed him to tell Mahler that Toscanini was taking over his Tristan production. Mahler DUly quit. Dippel died in Hollywood in his mid-6os.
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-08-24 12:24:05
Trending: Italy finally opens up to foreign arts directors
[…] from London to manage the Salzburg Easter Festival. Frenchman Pierre Audi is since nearly a quarter of a century the general director of Nederlandse Opera. German Alexander Neef is the general director of the Canadian Opera Company. Belgian Gérard Mortier has worked in Austria, Germany, France, Spain. Another Belgian, Bernard Foccroulle, leads the Aix-en-Provence festival. Several Italian opera managers have been working and still work in France, Belgium, USA, Portugal, Spain… Let alone Giulio Gatti Casazza, who was at the helm of the Met for more than thirty years, Rudolf Bing (Glyndebourne, Edinburgh, Met), who was born in Austria, and Bruno Zirato, who was the managing director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for quite a long while (and the guy who dared giving young Leonard Bernstein his first chances…). So what…? If we look in the history, in the field of orchestra and opera management – luckily – this […]
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