Gatti-Casazza engaged Pons immediately and she also signed a recording contract with RCA Victor.

Conried was followed by the 27-year tenure, from 1908 to 1935, of the magisterial Giulio Gatti-Casazza, whose model planning, authoritative organizational skills and brilliant casts raised the level of Metropolitan Opera to a prolonged and unforgettable Silver Age.

Then, in the summer of 1934, when the Met needed a replacement for Frida Leider, Flagstad agreed to audition for conductor Artur Bodanzky and Met general manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza in St Moritz in August 1934, and she was engaged immediately.

On 28 February 1929 Pelletier was promoted by Giulio Gatti-Casazza from assistant to regular conductor at the Met, a position he maintained through 1950.

She was discovered by the dramatic tenor / impresario Giovanni Zenatello, who took her to New York where she auditioned for Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera.

There were in fact several others, Lily Pons and Rosa Ponselle among them ; and it is well documented that Gatti-Casazza gave himself a large pay increase in 1931, so that after the pay cut in 1932 his salary remained the same as it had been originally.

In 1908, the former La Scala impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza became director of the Metropolitan Opera, New York.

In 1930, during Prokofiev's new tour of America Giulio Gatti-Casazza of the Metropolitan Opera suggested staging Fiery Angel, but this did not go ahead.

* February 3-Giulio Gatti-Casazza, opera manager ( d. 1940 )

Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the Met's then general manager, was furious at his company's most popular male singer ; he told the press that Gigli was the only singer not to accept the pay cut.

Under Volpe the Met considerably expanded its repertory, offering four world premiers and 22 Met premiers, more new works than under any manager since Gatti-Casazza.

Under the outstanding leadership of Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the Metropolitan Opera became a world-class musical organization.

On 4 April 1910, Frances Alda and Gatti-Casazza were married.

She and Gatti-Casazza separated the following year and then divorced.

She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.

In the hut to which I was assigned -- Max had his own quarters -- my food was brought to me by a wrinkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to enjoy conversing with me in rudimentary phrases.

The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.

Mercer's Whiteman association brought him into contact with Hoagy Carmichael, whose `` Snowball '' Mercer relyriced as `` Lazybones '', in which form it became a hit and marked the real beginning of Mercer's song-writing career.

In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.

The three volumes brought to the fore a characteristic of Trevelyan's prose which remained conspicuous through his later works -- a genius for describing military action with clarity and with authority.

It cannot become the source of a real Atlantic community if it remains organized to deal only with the military threat which first brought it into being ''.

In that decade the partisan zeal to defend Mr. Hoover, and the party's failure to anticipate or cope with the depression, caused a great majority of Americans to see the Republican party as cold and lacking in any sympathy for the problems of human beings caught up in the distress and suffering brought on by the economic crash.

It has not been any great mental effort on my part to keep up with this mechanization which has brought about new ways of dialing.

But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily.

He and other Soviet leaders responsible for the document were proud of having brought forward some new formulas, such as the early replacement of the dictatorship of the proletariat by an `` All People's State '', and also of having laid down the lines for a much greater `` democratization '' of the whole hierarchy of Soviets, starting with the Supreme Soviet itself.

He brought with him a mixture of myrrh and aloes, of about a hundred pounds' weight.

He improvised as he went along, completing a life-size clay figure, then bought yards of an inexpensive material from a draper, wet the lightweight cloth in a basin and covered it over with clay that Argiento brought from the bank of the Tiber, to the consistency of thick mud.

The boy was becoming acquainted with the contadini families that brought produce into Rome.

He would have to work without questioning the motives which made him work and content himself with the thought that the eventual victory, however it was brought about, would be sweet indeed.

Only a few more than 10,000 boats had been registered with the Division of Harbors and Rivers at the end of the 1960 boating season, but many had been taken out of the water early when the threat of a hurricane brought the season to an early close.

So it was that when Mr. Brown and Mr. Sharpe first saw the French tool on exhibition in Paris in 1868, they brought a sample with them to the United States and started Brown & Sharpe in yet another field where it retains its leadership to this day.

A plan must therefore be brought up to date periodically, possibly with the assistance of a permanent planning officer.

Louis Sherry once stayed a fortnight at the Palace, and he was so pleased with omelet Arbogast that he introduced it at his restaurant in New York J. Pierpont Morgan had come in his private train to San Francisco, to attend an Episcopal convention, and brought the restaurateur with him.

It is this subject matter that has brought Mason a large and enthusiastic following among sportsmen, but it is his exceptional performance with this motif that commends him to artists and discerning collectors.

The differences between onset age and completion age with respect to the corresponding mean age have been brought into juxtaposition by means of a series of arrows.

The unifying effect of religion is also brought out in the fact that historically peoples have clung together as more or less cohesive cultural units, with religion as the dominant bond, even though spatially dispersed and not politically organized.

He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.

`` You brought him back to this valley thinkin he would help you find your boy.

But a moment later he brought his horse forward into the light, and Wilson had a good look at him.

She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.

After I paid Monsieur Prieur for Dandy, I brought him home, but he was ill at ease and ran away the same night.

His revolutionary pamphlets, published when he was only 19, quickly brought him to the attention of the patriot leaders.

Each failed catastrophically in an invasion of Russia and each brought ruin on the country that worshipped him.

He ascribes to the mercy of God the peace which this personal matter -- the assurance that he can physically sustain the burden of the office longer than any individual in the history of our nation has been able to do -- has brought him.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

The first time I went there he asked me to bring him water from Flagler's well -- water that reminded him of his first days in the mountains -- and before I came the next time I filled a five-gallon jug for him and brought it to the hospital.

He came to Fleischmanns directly from the boat that brought him to America from Russia.

Argiento made him lie down on the bed, brought a pan of hot water, dipped some clean white linen cloth and applied it to extract the splinter.

To prevent the manager from deliberately controlling himself only during the sessions, they were rather lengthy ( about twenty minutes ), the situations were imperfectly described to the manager so that he would not know what to expect, new antagonists were brought on the scene unexpectedly, and the antagonists were instructed to deliberately behave in such ways as to upset the manager and get him to operate in a manner for which he had been previously criticized.

They tasted good to him, so he brought some to breakfast to eat in his cereal bowl with milk and honey.

Instead he brought with him the names of some people he had never met and of whom the medium knew nothing.

The police credited him with twenty-five murders but he was never brought to trial for one of them.

The knifelike pain in his groin nearly brought him down again.