Giulio Gatti-Casazza directs that opera company with most money to rent genius, the Metropolitan. His wife, Frances Alda, is the greatest soprano of New Zealand. His friend, Arturo Toscanini, is, say most critics, the greatest conductor in the world. La Scala, at Milan, is the most famed, opera house in Europe.
Twenty years ago, in La Scala, Signer Gatti directed, Signer Toscanini conducted, and the present Donna Gatti-Casazza sang Martha. Next September, by invitation of Signer Toscanini, the three superlative humans will again collaborate in their old roles at the superlative opera house in Milan, when Martha will be revived as was.
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