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May 23, 2018 · Gian Carlo Menotti (born 1911), Italian-born American composer, wrote highly melodramatic operas that mixed lyricism with atonality. Gian Carlo Menotti, born in Cadegliano, Italy, to Alfonso and Ines (Pellini) Menotti, was brought up in a musical atmosphere and started composing as a child.
July 7, 1911. Died. February 11, 2007. Country. Italy, then the United States of America. 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.
Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian -born American composer and librettist who wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. He won the Pulitzer Prize for two of them, The Consul (1950) and The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955).
Gian Carlo Menotti ( / məˈnɒti /, Italian: [ ˈdʒaŋ ˈkarlo meˈnɔtti]; July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer, librettist, director, and playwright who is primarily known for his output of 25 operas. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship.
Feb 3, 2007 · Sat 3 Feb 2007 18.47 EST. The Italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti, who has died aged 95, was an all-rounder of musical theatre with an enduring respect for the expressive power of the human...
Feb 2, 2007 · ROME — Gian Carlo Menotti, who composed a pair of Pulitzer Prize-winning operas and founded the Spoleto arts festivals in the United States and Italy, died Thursday at a Monaco hospital, said...
Gian Carlo Menotti — composer, dramatist, and founder of two major music festivals — died today in a Monaco hospital at age 95. No cause of death has yet been reported; Menotti's son Francis...
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