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Gian-Carlo Menotti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gian Carlo Menotti (born July 7, 1911, Cadegliano, Italy) is an Italian-born American composer and librettist. In 1984 Menotti was awarded the Kennedy Center Honor for achievement in the arts, and in 1991 he was chosen Musical America's "Musician of the Year." In addition to composing operas to his own texts, on his own chosen subject matter, Menotti directs most productions of his work. Menotti began writing songs when he was 7 and at 11 wrote both the libretto and music for his first opera, The Death of Pierrot. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gian_Carlo_Menotti   (591 words)

Independent Gay Forum: Varnell, Paul. `Menotti at 90.' Menotti once explained that he hums melodies for all his librettos as he is writing them and he hummed his own melodies for the words he wrote for Barber: "So there is a Menotti's 'Vanessa' floating around somewhere," he said. Menotti said he did not set out to be an opera composer, but the surprise success of his early "Amelia Goes to the Ball" (1936) decisively changed his plans. Many of Menotti's more recent operas have been "children's operas," including fantasies like "The Bride from Pluto" ("She looks like a pinball machine," one character frets) and "Help, Help, the Globolinks," which pokes fun at modern music by having the invaders from outer space talk in electronic music, afraid of melodies. www.indegayforum.org /authors/varnell/varnell69.html   (944 words)

Menotti, Gian-Carlo on Encyclopedia.com Sic transit 'Goya.' (On Music - Gian Carlo Menotti) CULTURE: Review : Openly appealing and undemanding of the listener ; Gian Carlo Menotti: Violin Concerto, Five Songs and other works - Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Ittai Shapira (violin) and other Menotti was taught music by his mother and composed his first opera at 10. www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Menotti.asp   (599 words)

Gian Carlo Menotti - in Scotland and Italy Gian Carlo Menotti was born on 7th July 1911 in Cadegliano, Italy, the seventh of seven sons. Gian Carlo Menotti is internationally regarded as a legend in his own lifetime. Gian Carlo Menotti - in Scotland and Italy www.rampantscotland.com /features/bldev_menotti.htm   (1388 words)

Menotti, Gian Carlo Gian Carlo Menotti was the best known American opera composer of the postwar period, partially because his operas were presented outside traditional venues. David Thomson's BBC documentary Gian Carlo Menotto allows the 89-old-composer to talk about his life and works in a relaxed setting in his Scottish home. Menotti's cantata for soloists, chorus and orchestra is a nine-part autobiographical set of musical impressions from his arrival in New York as a teenager to his discovery of South Carolina. home.earthlink.net /~beachwoodprs/menotti.htm   (436 words)

Gian Carlo Menotti Biography / Biography of Gian Carlo Menotti Biography Biography 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. Gian Carlo Menotti (born 1911), Italian-born American composer, wrote highly melodramatic operas that mixed lyricism with atonality. Menotti's next operas never quite sustained the excitement generated by The Medium, even though The Consul (1950), which also ran on Broadway, received a Pulitzer Prize, and The Saint of Bleecker Street (1951) won several awards. www.bookrags.com /biography-gian-carlo-menotti   (672 words)

Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Gian Carlo Menotti Menotti was born in the country town of Cadegliano on Lake Lugano in Italy. It was, however, with The Medium that Menotti was established as one of the foremost composer-librettist of modern opera. Menotti's first full length opera, The Consul, considered by many to be his greatest work, opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater March 15, 1950. www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3759&source_type=A   (770 words)

Gian Carlo Menotti - Composer Essay Gian Carlo is ardent and fun-loving, generous to a fault, and often conned into giving hand-outs to those who know how to manipulate him (which is not too difficult). Menotti has a great love and understanding of children; he has their audacity and frankness but he is in no way childish. Menotti is fundamentally a story teller and any subtext is buried in the physical actions of his protagonists. www.schirmer.com /composers/menotti/essay.html   (3350 words)

Mahler Gian Carlo Menotti was born in Cadegliano, Italy on July 7, 1911, lived for many years in the United States, and now resides in Scotland. Yet in both the Barber and the Menotti concertos, there is something in the shape of the melodies, their orchestration, and in the whole spirit of the music that marks them as products of a newer era. In writing a concerto tailored to Zimbalist's Romantic artistry, Menotti's ambition was no more and no less than to add another virtuoso concerto to the repertory, telling a familiar story in his own, personal words. www.clevelandorch.com /images/FTPImages/Performance/program_notes/082303.html   (2748 words)

classical music - andante - gian carlo menotti at 90 It says "Menotti's melodies are tonal, sometimes with a modal flavor, and often easily remembered." It later contextualizes him as the descendant of Gershwin and the antecedent of Andrew Lloyd Webber - a thinly veiled sideswipe in a dictionary dedicated to "serious" music. The Consul, Menotti's next opera, is even darker than The Medium: it depicts the immigration office of a consulate in a (seemingly) far-off and dystopian world during the coldest of cold wars. The prolific Menotti was the librettist for Samuel Barber's Vanessa and The Hand of Bridge and Lukas Foss' Introductions and Goodbyes; he is also a playwright (working in styles ranging from Tennessee Williams to Noel Coward), poet, author of short stories and television scripts. www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=10635   (1950 words)

glbtq >> arts >> Menotti, Gian Carlo Menotti has sometimes been charged with extending himself too broadly and spreading himself too thin as he has pursued a notably versatile career--composer of opera, orchestral composer, composer of songs, director of opera, director of the Spoleto Festival, etc. Still, he has achieved real distinction in many areas. Menotti was born in Cadegliano, Italy on July 7, 1911. Menotti then wrote a series of operas that were staged very successfully on Broadway. www.glbtq.com /arts/menotti_gc.html   (1022 words)

Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-) One of the most successful operatic composers of the twentieth century, Gian Carlo Menotti was born in Cadegliano, Italy, and, after studying at the Milan Conservatory, came to Philadelphia in 1927 to complete his training at the Curtis Institute. Menotti was also the founder of the Spoleto Festivals in Italy and in Charleston, South Carolina. Menotti's musical style is founded on that of Puccini and the verismo composers, with a limited use of more advanced techniques. www.libertynet.org /pce/notesm02.html   (1303 words)

MSN Encarta - Menotti Menotti, Gian-Carlo, born in 1911, Italian American composer, born in Cadegliano, Italy, and educated at the Milan Conservatory and at the Curtis... Become a subscriber today and gain access to: encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578009/Menotti.html   (76 words)

Additional Reading (from Menotti, Gian Carlo) --  Encyclopædia Britannica An American composer of Italian birth, Gian Carlo Menotti is best known for his operas. The Italian poet, prose writer, and dramatist Carlo Gozzi was a fierce and skillful defender of the traditional Italian commedia dell'arte form against the dramatic innovations of Pietro Chiari and Carlo Goldoni. The prolific Italian dramatist Carlo Goldoni rejuvenated the well-established Italian commedia dell'arte dramatic form by replacing its masked stock figures with more realistic characters, its loosely structured and often repetitive action with tightly constructed plots, and its predictable farce with a new spirit of gaiety and spontaneity. www.britannica.com /eb/article-4817?tocId=4817   (709 words)

Gian Carlo Menotti program notes (Jan'05) Chamber Orchestra of the Springs Gian Carlo Menotti was born in Northern Italy in 1911 into a cultured family. Menotti represents something of a phenomenon in American music; before he was twenty-six he had completed, and seen produced, an opera ("Amelia Goes to the Ball") of such sparkling gaiety and charm that it disarmed all criticism. Both pieces were huge successes, and remain the most performed of Menotti's works after Amahl and the Night Visitors. www.chamberorchestraofthesprings.org /Menoti51.htm   (361 words)

Menotti, Gian Carlo Music Web Links Schirmer: Gian Carlo Menotti - Composer essay by Paul Wittke. Gian Carlo Menotti - Filmography at IMDb lists motion pictures and television productions featuring his music. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper Menotti, Gian Carlo "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Composition_Composers_M_Menotti,_Gian_Carlo.html   (1725 words)

Gian Carlo Menotti - Biography Gian Carlo Menotti was born on 7 July 1911, in Cadegliano, Italy. January 1996 Gian Carlo Menotti: "Amahl" Sings On article Menotti writes the text to all his operas, the original language being English in every case, with the exception of www.schirmer.com /composers/menotti/bio.html   (577 words)

Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Menotti Gian Carlo Menotti, born July 7, 1911, in Cadegliano, (Varese) Italy, wrote and produced his first opera when he was eleven. Menotti continued his Broadway success with The Consul, written in 1950 and now in the repertoire of many major opera companies. Although best known as operatic composer, Menotti has displayed great versatility in a wide range of musical forms, including large-scale orchestral works such as Missa O Pulchritudo, First symphony, The Halcyon, The symphonic Poem Apocalypse, Triple concerto A Tre, Fantasia for Cello and Orchestra and concertos for piano, violin and double bass. www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/menotti.html   (815 words)

Amazon.ca: Music: AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS (Menotti) (Complete) [Cast Recording] However, this old mono recording has been surpassed by a much superior new recording made by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in a production directed by the composer himself, Gian Carlo Menotti. Menotti wrote music that was very excellent in providing these feelings, but with them is required the ability to understand what the woman is stressing over. Menotti is super at knowing when to tone things down so a child's sound can be heard. www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003EPE   (723 words)

Gian Carlo Menotti (geb. 1911) Menotti studierte am Konservatorium in Mailand, spaeter bei R.Scalero am "Curtis Institute of Music" in Philadelphia; von 1933-55 war er dort Lehrer. www.karadar.it /worterbuch/menotti.html   (47 words)

classical music - andante - gian carlo menotti directs wagner's lohengrin at the spoleto festival Gian Carlo Menotti directs his own one-act operas The Telephone and The Medium, while a promising cast and Milan's Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi give an impressive Macbeth. Gian Carlo Menotti Directs Wagner's Lohengrin at the Spoleto Festival classical music - andante - gian carlo menotti directs wagner's lohengrin at the spoleto festival www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=21536   (227 words)

Greenwood Publishing Group I1 Gian Carlo Menotti is a composer known chiefly for his popular operas, including Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Medium, and The Consul. A brief biographical sketch precedes a chronologically arranged bibliography of general writings by and about Menotti followed by a detailed list of works, alphabetically arranged. Opera music scholars, along with Menotti fans, will appreciate this detailed guide to available research materials. info.greenwood.com /books/0313261/0313261393.html   (211 words)

The Hutchinson Dictionary of Music: Menotti, Gian Carlo (1911-  )@ HighBeam Research The Hutchinson Dictionary of Music: Menotti, Gian Carlo (1911-&;)@ HighBeam Research www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28907933&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (118 words)

Amazon.com: Books: Amahl and the Night Visitors In this warm and compassionate story, Gian Carlo Menotti has captured the essential spirit of Christmas. ~ by Gian Carlo Menotti, Thomas Schippers, Rosemary Kuhlmann Chet Allen Menotti's wit and reverence are reflected in the artist's visions, creating a classic Christmas book. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0688054269?v=glance   (1127 words)

Amelia Al ballo - by Gian Carlo Menotti Amelia Al ballo - by Gian Carlo Menotti Throughout the opera, she is simply desperate to go to the ball. Amelia wants to go to the ball and seemingly nothing will stop her. www.stageagent.com /cb/info.pl/ti/amelia_al_ballo   (136 words)

Menotti, Gian Carlo Menotti won the Pulizter Prize for his opera The Consul in 1950. Menotti won the Pulizter Prize for The Saint of Bleeker Street in 1955. For a complete biography of Menotti, see the link to the Schirmer site below. stevenestrella.com /composers/composerfiles/menottiliving.html   (156 words)

Italian Voice, The: Gian Carlo Menotti at Spoleto Festival@ HighBeam Research The 1996 Spoleto Festival, in the Umbrian hills northeast of Rome, June 20 - July 14, will pay tribute to its founder and guiding light, Gian Carlo Menotti, and will celebrate his 85th birthday on July 7. Italian Voice, The: Gian Carlo Menotti at Spoleto Festival@ HighBeam Research From its first summer, 1958, the Spoleto Festival has been a cultural and touristic sensation. www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:2390800&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (180 words)

World of Quotes - Gian Carlo Menotti Quotes. 2 Quotes for 'Gian Carlo Menotti' in the Database. :: Author » Letter "G" » Gian Carlo Menotti Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. www.worldofquotes.com /author/Gian-Carlo-Menotti/1   (85 words)

Biblio: (ISBN: 0688054269) Amahl and the Night Visitors; by Gian Carlo Menotti; Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress) by Gian Carlo Menotti; Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress) Menotti, Gian Carlo; Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress) Book is like new pages are tight and clean,inscription on inside cover page.. www.openbiblio.org /isbn/0688054269.html   (339 words)

Grieb (1974) The operas of Gian Carlo Menotti, 1937-1972: A selective bibliography Grieb (1974) The operas of Gian Carlo Menotti, 1937-1972: A selective bibliography The operas of Gian Carlo Menotti, 1937-1972: A selective bibliography To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box. www.getcited.org /?PUB=101497020&showStat=Ratings   (87 words)

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