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Feb 1, 2007 · Gian Carlo Menotti, who wrote his first opera before he was 11 and went on to become perhaps the most popular and prolific opera composer of his time, winning two Pulitzer Prizes, died...
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.
May 23, 2018 · Literature and the Arts. Music: History, Composers, and Performers: Biographies. Gian-Carlo Menotti. Menotti, Gian Carlo. views 2,325,362 updated May 23 2018. Gian Carlo Menotti. Composer. Moved to America. High Notes and Low Notes. Beloved Christinas Opera. Selected compositions. Sources.
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...
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.
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 (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).
