#Gian Carlo Menotti

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Opera Society of Washington - Menotti's The Medium - Vinyl - LP - Columbia rec. - 1971

[depressedraisin]

this is such a fucking insane paragraph to read (complimentary)

[lesser-known-composers]

Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007) - Five Songs: No. 5, The Swing · ·

Christine Brewer · Roger Vignoles, piano

[bdpst24]

FOTÓKKAL: Gian Carlo Menotti: A telefon

FOTÓKKAL: Gian Carlo Menotti: A telefon

Menotti 1947-es egyfelvonásos operája a bemutató idején bájos tréfa volt. Mára egy kortünet tragikomikus látlelete: a mobilkommunikáció átírta a világunkat, és új jelentésrétegeket adott a műnek is. Előadásunk egy mai nagyváros forgatagába helyezi a történetet, így nem csupán két emberről mesél, hanem arról a generációról, amely telefonon, e-mailen és közösségi portálokon éli életét, miközben…

[elviracore]

i’m producing (and directing and starring in lol) the telephone by menotti and it is such a big undertaking! but i am so excited. directing is a beast with which i have very little experience. i don’t expect it to be anything groundbreaking, but i hope it’ll be funny. maybe i’ll post the link when i record it, we’ll see.

[billlaotian]

[opera-ghosts]

Gwen Catley gets sultry in a rare foray into contemporary opera

Menotti: THE OLD MAID AND THE THIEF, What a curse for a woman is a timid man ... Steal me, sweet thief, WDR Köln, 1954

Gwen Catley (1906 – 1996) was an English coloratura soprano best known for her radio and television appearances and recordings of arias, mostly sung in English translations. Catley was born in London and studied at the Guildhall School of Music. In 1937 she sang with Sadler's Wells Opera, as the Queen of the Night and Nannetta. She sang Gilda with the Carl Rosa Opera Company during the war. In 1949 she was chosen by Sir Thomas Beecham to sing Catherine in a BBC studio broadcast of Bizet's "The Fair Maid of Perth" (available on YouTube). In 1953 she was Anne Trulove in the first British performance of Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress," again as BBC broadcast.

"The Old Maid and the Thief" is a radio opera in one act by Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti to his own libretto. It was commissioned for radio broadcast by NBC and was very successful. He revised it slightly to work as a stage production, which premiered in Philadelphia in 1941. It was recorded by Mercury Records in 1970, featuring a young Judith Blegen. The opera tells the story of a seemingly upstanding old woman in small town who is actually a thief. She frames a vagabond for her misdeeds, but he and her maid, Laetitia, outsmart her and run off together in the old woman's car. Laetitia sings her aria "Steal me, sweet thief" imagining Bob the vagabond will take her away from her dreary life.

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[music-crush]

Gian Carlo Menotti

Buon compleanno, Gian Carlo Menotti!

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Samuel Barber & Gian Carlo Menotti

This Pride Month H2shO™️ CLASSICAL celebrates  LGBTQ+ classical music composers & conductors, from the prolific composers to the lesser known, who have been great contributors to music history.

While Samuel Barber was still a teenager at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, he met fellow student Gian Carlo Menotti. For six decades, the two distinguished composers would became partners in life and in music. 

Barber’s most famous composition is his “Adagio for Strings,” written while he and Menotti spent a summer in a rented house on Wolfgangsee, Austria (near Salzburg) in 1936. The Adagio was one of President John F Kennedy’s favorites. Included is a photograph taken of couples Jackie Kennedy & John, Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti taken a week before the President was killed.

Menotti wrote the libretti for two of Samuel Barber's operas, Vanessa and A Hand of Bridge, as well as revising the latter for another opera, Antony and Cleopatra. 

By the early 1970’s, the classical music power couple parted. Barber became reclusive and suffered from alcoholism after enduring harsh criticism of his later works. Menotti moved to Scotland in 1973. The break-up may have hastened Barber's decline. But when Barber died in 1981, Menotti was by his side. Theirs is a complicated love story. 

[underground211]

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Gian Carlo Menotti

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[nautilusgays]

Petition to rename the opera Amelia Goes to the Ball (Menotti) to:

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss: the Opera

I mean jus look at this synopsis, she is messy queen icon:

"Amelia, a wealthy young socialite, is in her boudoir getting ready for the first ball of the season. However, her husband has discovered that she has a lover and refuses to accompany Amelia unless she reveals his name. When she reveals that her lover is their upstairs neighbor, a general melee breaks out between the jealous husband and her pesty lover, with Amelia eventually breaking a vase over her husband's head. When the police arrive, she tells them that a burglar had entered the apartment and attacked her husband with the vase. Her husband is taken to hospital, her lover is arrested as the burglar, and Amelia leaves for the ball on the arm of the chief of police who has come to investigate."

[depressedraisin]

classical pieces that give me the same energy as the car

my classical phase is coming back bear with me

sergei rachmaninoff- morceaux de fantaisie op. 3 no. 1: elegie (sheku kaneh mason, cello & isata kaneh mason, piano)

jennifer higdon- harp concerto movt. 3: lullaby (yolanda kondonassis, harp; rochester philharmonic, orchestra)

pt. ravi shankar, philip glass- ragas in minor scale (ravi shankar, sitar et. al)

gian carlo menotti- violin concerto (jennifer koh, violin; spoleto festival orchestra)

erich korngold- theme for deception (1946)

einojuhani rautavaara- deux serenades no. 1: serenade pour mon amour (hilary hahn, violin; orchestre de philharmonique radio france)

franz schubert- nacht und träume, op. 43, no. 2 (peter pears, voice & benjamin britten, piano)

sergei prokofiev- piano concerto no. 3, op. 26 (martha argerich, piano; berliner philharmoniker orchestra)

[misskattylashes]

Samuel Barber and his opera, Vanessa

Samuel Barber and his opera, Vanessa https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/nov/14/classicalmusicandopera1?CMP=share_btn_url

Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti. Lifelong 'friends' who met as teenagers, wrote together and shared a fractious relationship both personally and professionally, but stayed together for forty years....

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