Gian Carlo Menotti
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Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian 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 k
Menotti in 2000
Gian Carlo Menotti, photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1944
Hieronymus Bosch's Adoration of the Magi which inspired Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors (Metropolitan Museum, Object Number: 13.26)
Amahl and the Night Visitors
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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 and first performed by the NBC Opera Theatre on
Gian Carlo Menotti
…highlight textual meaning and underscore dramatic intent. Like Wagner, Menotti wrote the libretti of all his operas. He wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951), along with over two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. Many of Menotti's operas enjoyed successful runs on Broadway…
Willis Patterson, John McCollum, Richard Cross as the Three Kings, with Kurt Yaghjian as Amahl and Martha King as his mother in the 1963 production