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to telephone Magda. Magda commits suicide. While the gas takes effect she hallucinates about her companions in the waiting room. As she dies the telephone rings. Personalities | Gian Carlo Menotti | Modern Era | Opera ...

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(Jan Kär’-lo Me-nôt’-te) 1911–2007 Italian-American composer The best of Menotti’s stage works combine something of the melodic appeal of Puccini and his successors with a dramatic punch that is Menotti’s own, but owes something to the American musical. His macabre The Medium (1946) and the chilling The Consul (1950), about refugees attempting to escape an unnamed country, have both ...

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1911–2007, Italian One of the most important opera composers during the 1950s, Menotti had already written two operas by the time he entered the Milan Conservatory aged 13, and he would go on to write 23 more. He later moved to America and studied at the Curtis Institute, where he met his lifelong companion and inspiration, ...

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legend of Tristan and Isolde. Recommended Recording: Petite symphonie concertante, soloists, Geneva Chamber Orchestra (cond) Thierry Fischer (Dinemec) Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | Gian Carlo Menotti | Modern Era | Classical ...

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one season short of his 25th anniversary at the Met he was forced into retirement by a resentful Rudolf Bing. Introduction | Modern Era | Opera Personalities | Gian Carlo Menotti | Modern Era | Opera Houses & Companies | The Birth of the Metropolitan Opera | Turn of the Century | Opera ...

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his dissonances and harmonies were not truly Romantic, his gifts as a supreme melodist served to pigeonhole him. Barber established a lifelong personal and professional relationship with Gian Carlo Menotti (1911–2007), whose libretto for Barber’s first full-length opera, Vanessa (1957), was based on Isak Dinesen’s Seven Gothic Tales. Barber received the Pulitzer prize for Vanessa, yet Antony and ...

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‘musical memory book’, for the way it incorporated fragments of pre-existing American styles. It was an exuberant experiment, more adventurous than Thomson’s later Lord Byron (1972). Italian-born Gian Carlo Menotti (1911–2007) arrived in America in 1928. While a student in Philadelphia he met Samuel Barber (1910–81); the two were life-long companions, and did much to establish American opera, ...