Giulio Gatti-Casazza

Giulio Gatti- Casazza ( born February 3, 1869 in Udine, † September 2, 1940 in Ferrara, Italy ) was an Italian opera manager who tried to advance at the beginning of the 20th century the development of American opera.

Originally studied Gatti in Genoa at the " Accademia Navale " and the Royal Naval College ( Regia Scuola Superiore Navale ). He received his diploma in 1891 as a marine engineer and returned to Ferrara, where he began his one-year military service.

1893 joined Gatti succeeded his father as Chairman of the Board opera at the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara. There he worked until the new season 1897/1898 as chairman of the main responsible committee of the opera house.

Gatti got in 1898 the post of Director General at the Milan Teatro alla Scala offered. There he first worked with Arturo Toscanini, who was engaged as music director at La Scala. After he had in 1907 received an offer from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, he moved in 1908, together with Arturo Toscanini from the Scala to the Metropolitan Opera in New York to be there working as a general manager. He led the Opera House the first opera salaried manager who was also opera specialist. Its 27 -year-long tenure was the longest in the history of the Metropolitan Opera. With a repertoire of 40 to 50 plants per season, he presented many world premieres and American premieres. So he brought, for example, in 1910 the opera La Fanciulla del West and King children to the world premiere. Also to promote the American opera earns Gatti- Casazza made ​​: So was the first American opera at the Met "The pipe of desire " by Frederick Shepherd Converse played and advertised a composition competition for American composers. The winning opera " Mona" by Horatio Parker was premiered in 1911. Overall Gatti brought about a dozen American world premieres.

1910 married Gatti- Casazza, the New Zealand singer Frances Alda, but left in 1929 divorced from her. Shortly thereafter, in 1930, he went his second marriage with Rosina Galli, an Italian ballerina who headed the Opera Ballet of the Metropolitan Opera, a. 1935 Gatti left the New York Metropolitan Opera, and returned with his wife to Italy, where he lived until his death.

Swell

  • Giulio Gatti- Casazza: Memories Of The Opera. New York 1973.
  • Karl H. Hiller: 100 years of MET. Opera in the New World. Munich 1983.
  • Irving Kolodin: The Story of the Metropolitan Opera. From 1883 to 1950. A candid history. New York 1953.
  • Mallach, Alan: The Autumn of Italian Opera. From Verismo to Modernism 1890-1915. Boston 2007.
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