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Gatti-Casazza, Giulio
(Encyclopedia)Gatti-Casazza, Giulio joo´ly gät´t-käzät´sä [key], 1869–1940, Italian operatic manager. In 1893 he succeeded his father as director of the municipal theater at Ferrara. After directing ...Witherspoon, Herbert
(Encyclopedia)Witherspoon, Herbert w´rspoon [key], 1873–1935, American basso, b. Buffalo, N.Y.; grad. Yale, 1895, studied music with Edward MacDowell. He studied both painting and singing in New York Ci...Kahn, Otto Hermann
(Encyclopedia)Kahn, Otto Hermannkän, 1867–1934, American banker and patron of the arts, born and educated in Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1893 and in 1897 joined the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb &...Metropolitan Opera Company
(Encyclopedia)Metropolitan Opera Company, term used in referring collectively to the organizations that have produced opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City. The original house, at West 39th Street an...Pippi, Giulio
(Encyclopedia)Pippi, Giulio: see Giulio Romano.Natta, Giulio
(Encyclopedia)Natta, Giulio, 1903–79, Italian chemist, Ph.D. the Polytechnic of Milan, 1924. Natta held brief appointments at several academic institutions, including the Univ. of Pavia (1933–35), the Univ. of ...Campi, Giulio
(Encyclopedia)Campi, Giulio joo´ly käm´p [key], c.1500–c.1572, Italian painter and architect, founder of a school of painters at Cremona. He was a pupil of his father, Galeazzo Campi (c.1475–1536), a w...Andreotti, Giulio
(Encyclopedia)Andreotti, Giulio joo´l ändrät [key], 1919–2013, Italian political leader. A leading member of the Christian Democratic party, Andreotti held a variety of ministerial posts througho...Romano, Giulio
(Encyclopedia)Romano, Giulio: see Giulio Romano.Alberoni, Giulio
(Encyclopedia)Alberoni, Giulio joo´ly älbr´n [key], 1664–1752, Italian statesman in Spanish service, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Appointed (1713) representative of the duke of Parma at the...Browse by Subject
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