The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore or The Three Sundays of a Poet is a "madrigal fable" for chorus, ten dancers and nine instruments with music and original libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti. Base
The composer in 1944
A manticore in an illustration from the Rochester Bestiary
A unicorn pictured in a manuscript of De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomeus Anglicus
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
The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore
…and the Manticore or The Three Sundays of a Poet is a "madrigal fable" for chorus, ten dancers and nine instruments with music and original libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti. Based on the 16th-century Italian madrigal comedy genre, it consists of a prologue and 12 madrigals which tell a continuous story, interspersed with…
Menotti in 2000
Hieronymus Bosch's Adoration of the Magi which inspired Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors (Metropolitan Museum, Object Number: 13.26)