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Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti with an original English libretto by the composer. It was commissioned by NBC and first performed by the NBC Opera Theatre on December 24, 1951, in New York City at NBC Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, where it was broadcast live on television from that venue as the debut production of the Hallmark Hall of Fame.
Gian Carlo Menotti became the most-performed contemporary opera composer of his era. He stood alone on the American scene as the first to create American opera with so much appeal to audiences that it became established in permanent repertory. He adapted his natural Italian gift for operatic drama and performance to the requir ents of the ...
The Medium. The Medium is a short (one-hour-long) two-act dramatic opera with words and music by Gian Carlo Menotti. Commissioned by the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University, its first performance was there on 8 May 1946, with Claramae Turner as Madame Flora. The opera's first professional production was presented on a double bill with ...
Feb 1, 2007 · Composer, Librettist, Theatre and Festival Director. Probably 20th century America's most successful creator of opera. His eclectic but dramatically-effective style united contemporary drama with traditional Italian operatic form. Menotti's most famous work is the short Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors...
Gian Carlo Menotti (írásváltozata Giancarlo Menotti) [dʒan ˈkarlo meˈnɔtːi] ( Cadegliano, Lombardia, 1911. július 7. – Monte-Carlo, 2007. február 1.) olasz-amerikai zeneszerző, librettista, rendező. Eklektikus stílusúnak tartott, leginkább Puccinit követő operái révén az egyik legtöbbet játszott 20. századi komponista.
Jul 6, 2016 · Gian Carlo Menotti has long been acknowledged as among the foremost Italian-American opera composers of the 20th century. Born in 1911, he was an avid student of the piano during his youth, which he spent in Italy. At a very young age, he wrote the opera The Little Mermaid-this early opera demonstrates the composer's interest in fantasy and the ...
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