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...early Victrola era, a prized record was the $7 single-sided Sextet from Lucia, sung by Caruso, Tetrazzini, Jacoby, Amato, Journet, Bada. In the hysterical years of World War I, secret service men shadowed non-Germans Leopold Stokowski, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Leopold Godowsky. The conductor-worshiping '205 showed the most extreme faddism ("Toscanini conducting Italian nonsense could pack the hall"). In the late-lamented Flagstad epoch, Tristan & Isolde grossed $150,000 in nine performances, "thereby becoming the greatest 'hit' ever to strike Broadway...
This week Alfredo Salmaggi moved on to Philadelphia, thus ending in Manhattan a three-week war over 99? opera. At the Hippodrome a second season was in full swing, with an average attendance of 4,000 a night (capacity: 5,000). Pasquale Amato, genial oldtime Metropolitan baritone, had supplanted Salmaggi as artistic director. Salmaggi had tried to compete at the Broadway Theatre a few blocks away. Both had the same standard repertory in which Verdi predominated. But last week Amato played the deciding trump when he engaged 40 Metropolitan choristers, 40 Metropolitan orchestramen, made an honest bargain...
...ever pursued by ha'nts-shades of great bygone baritones-he and the public knew after last week's performance that he had more than held his lead among his contemporaries in his progress towards the high place once held by Giuseppe Campanari, Maurice Renaud, Pasquale Amato, Antonio Scotti. Campanari is dead. Renaud and Amato are no longer singing. Scotti will give his farewell performance next week...
...appeal to the proletariat," Maestro Salmaggi planned for Washington a performance with 500 supers from the local unemployed, horses from Fort Myer, elephants and camels from National Zoological Park. After two postponements Aïda was performed in Washington by a troupe including Soprano Leonora Corona, Baritone Pasquale Amato and members of the chorus of the Metropolitan Opera. The animals had dwindled to eight riding horses, prancing nervously at the sides of the proscenium. The same company will be heard in Baltimore's Oriole Park July 10, Atlantic City's Steel Pier July 17, Chicago's Soldier...
...Cesare Sodero (formerly with La Scala, now opera conductor of NBC) surrounded by an orchestra of 90 men, most of them from the Cleveland Orchestra. Three operators regulated a $25,000 amplification system which used horns six ft. long.* Anne Roselle was Aïda. Paul Althouse, Rhadames, Pasquale Amato was Amonasro. Critics credited them with "signal ability . . . abundant breadth and vigor . . . impressive operatic authority...