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Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007) was an Italian-American composer, librettist, director, and playwright who wrote 25 operas, including The Consul and Amahl and the Night Visitors. He also founded the Spoleto Festivals and taught at the Curtis Institute of Music.
Jul 3, 2024 · Learn about the life and works of Gian Carlo Menotti, an Italian composer of operas and librettos. Find out how he combined 20th-century drama with traditional opera form and won two Pulitzer Prizes.
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Feb 2, 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 Thursday...
Learn about the life and achievements of Gian Carlo Menotti, the most-performed contemporary opera composer of his era. Explore his operas for adults and children, his ballets, and his orchestral works.
Feb 1, 2007 · Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, composer of the opera Amahl and the Night Visitors and founder of the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, died today at a hospital in Monaco, according to a statement...
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 his...
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Jul 7, 2011 · Menotti died in 2007 at age 95. Does Gian Carlo Menotti rank with the greatest composers of the 20th Century? Commentator Miles Hoffman has made his case. What do you think?