Well may the Sergeant of Police in The Pirates of Penzance have sung An Impressario's Life Is Not a Happy One. Because it isn't. He must hire and fire temperamentalists, must decide on policies, programs, productions, must superintend rehearsals and performances, must listen to "complaints," real and fancied, from inside and outside, from lower down and higher up.
Giulio Gatti-Casazza has done all this for the Metropolitan Opera Company for the past 16 years. Still far from broken, he continues to be liked by his company. So it was not surprising to learn last...
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