Scenes and behind scenes at the Metropolitan opera. Illustration shows a vignette cartoon showing Giulio Gatti-Casazza with the trained animals for various operas and a woman sitting in the celebrated 'Horseshoe' section of the operahouse; the surrounding vignettes show Alfred Hertz as a young man and as the current conductor, Enrico Caruso, Italy's Standing Army, which is a group of men dressed for the theater, possibly critics, actors with props, and a primadonna too large to fit the chairs of the period.. Date 1915 January 9. Scenes and behind scenes at the Metropolitan opera. Illustration shows a vignette cartoon showing Giulio Gatti-Casazza with the trained animals for various operas and a woman sitting in the celebrated 'Horseshoe' section of the operahouse; the surrounding vignettes show Alfred Hertz as a young man and as the current conductor, Enrico Caruso, Italy's Standing Army, which is a group of men dressed for the theater, possibly critics, actors with props, and a primadonna too large to fit the chairs of the period.. Date 1915 January 9.