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    Gian Carlo Menotti (/məˈnɒti/, Italian: [ˈdʒaŋ ˈkarlo meˈnɔtti]; July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer, librettist, director...
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    from 1939 to 1942. Barber was in a relationship with the composer Gian Carlo Menotti for more than 40 years. They lived at Capricorn, a house just north...
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    The Consul (category Operas by Gian Carlo Menotti)
    The Consul is an opera in three acts with music and libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, his first full-length opera. Its first performance was on March 1,...
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  • actor Gian Carlo Menotti (1911 – 2007), Italian composer and librettist Gian Carlo Michelini (born 1935), Italian Roman Catholic priest Gian Carlo Muzzarelli...
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  • Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano (1867–1948), Italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti (1911–2007), Italian-American composer and librettist Ciro Menotti (1798–1831)...
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    Amahl and the Night Visitors (category Operas by Gian Carlo Menotti)
    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...
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    June to early July in Spoleto, Italy, since its founding by composer Gian Carlo Menotti in 1958. It features a vast array of concerts, opera, dance, drama...
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  • Gian Carlo Menotti, founded in 1958. He was named president of the Festival in 1994, and artistic director in 1999. In his will, Gian Carlo Menotti bequeathed...
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    11, composed in 1936 while he was spending a summer in Europe with Gian Carlo Menotti, an Italian composer and Barber's partner since their student years...
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  • Volonté, former actor Gian Sammarco, former actor Gian Carlo Menotti, composer and librettist Gian Sotto, Filipino politician Gian Piero Ventura, Italian...
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    Music twice: Walter Piston, 1948, 1961 Gian Carlo Menotti, 1950, 1955 Samuel Barber, 1958 (libretto by Menotti), 1963 Elliott Carter, 1960, 1973 Charles...
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    invited by Gian Carlo Menotti to perform in his Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto in 1986. This included the recorded-to-video performance of Menotti's La santa...
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    The Hero (opera) (category Operas by Gian Carlo Menotti)
    The Hero is a two-act opera by Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti commissioned by the Opera Company of Philadelphia, to celebrate the United...
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    in New York City during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Cole Porter, Gian Carlo Menotti, Lily Pons, Sir Thomas Beecham, and other celebrities were counted...
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    acts by Samuel Barber, opus 32, with an original English libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti. It was composed in 1956–1957 and was first performed at the Metropolitan...
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    Amelia Goes to the Ball (category Operas by Gian Carlo Menotti)
    Ball) is a one-act opera buffa by Gian Carlo Menotti, who set his own Italian libretto. Composed during 1936 when Menotti was in his mid-twenties, it was...
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    Monte Carlo (/ˌmɒnti ˈkɑːrloʊ/ MON-tee KAR-loh, Italian: [ˈmonte ˈkarlo]; French: Monte-Carlo, French: [mɔ̃te kaʁlo]; or colloquially Monte-Carl, French:...
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    The Old Maid and the Thief (category Operas by Gian Carlo Menotti)
    Gian Carlo Menotti. The work uses an English language libretto by the composer which tells a twisted tale of morals and evil womanly power. Menotti writes...
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  • office Medium Productions, a record label The Medium, a 1946 opera by Gian-Carlo Menotti Medium (band), an American rock band The Medium (video game), a 2021...
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    The Telephone (opera) (category Operas by Gian Carlo Menotti)
    Gian Carlo Menotti, both words and music. It was written for production by the Ballet Society and was first presented on a double bill with Menotti's...
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    Barber, William Schuman, Carlos Surinach, Norman Dello Joio, and Gian Carlo Menotti. Graham's mother died in Santa Barbara in 1958. Her oldest friend...
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    The Last Savage (category Operas by Gian Carlo Menotti)
    The Last Savage is an opera in three acts by composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Menotti wrote his own libretto, originally in the Italian language (L'ultimo...
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    Center for Media - Hallmark Hall of Fame Amahl and the Night Visitors - Gian Carlo Minotti and Nicholas Magallanes on paleycenter.org". Archived from the...
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    Nightmusic: Intimate Conversations with Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Gian Carlo Menotti, Leontyne Price, Richard Rodgers, Artur Rubinstein, Andrés Segovia...
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    unsuccessful premiere, the opera was extensively revised by Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti into an edition first performed in 1975. For the world premiere—also...
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    The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore (category Operas by Gian Carlo Menotti)
    dancers and nine instruments with music and original libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti. Based on the 16th-century Italian madrigal comedy genre, it consists...
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    and Bess), Scott Joplin (Treemonisha), Leonard Bernstein (Candide), Gian Carlo Menotti, Douglas Moore, and Carlisle Floyd began to contribute English-language...
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    performing Schubert's Mass in G and Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti. At the age of six years, Kilcher was the first child to study classical...
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    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,...
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    Frank Sinatra James Stewart Virgil Thomson 1984 Lena Horne Danny Kaye Gian Carlo Menotti Arthur Miller Isaac Stern 1985 Merce Cunningham Irene Dunne Bob Hope...
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