Word: consulate
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Even La Sea la. Last week, Italian-born Composer Menotti's days of counting the customers seemed to be over, and that was a prospect that Menotti was regarding with considerable concern. A few days after his new opera, The Consul, opened on Broadway (TIME, March 27), he phoned Producer Cowles and said in a subdued voice: "Well, I guess we have a success on our hands. Now is when we must be humble...
...Consul, Menotti's first three-acter, has a plot that is just as drab as The Medium's: the story of a desperate woman in a police state who commits suicide when her last attempt to get a visa fails. It is longer and not so compact, but it packs more than The Medium's share of melodramatic punch. It opened on Broadway with a $100,000 advance sale; by last week all seats were sold out through June...
...also won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the year's best "musical" (opera was still considered too strong a word for Broadway; The Consul was billed as a "musical drama"). Decca Records was recording it with the original cast, and Hollywood was shouting offers, none of which seemed to be of much interest to 38-year-old Composer Menotti. What pleased him considerably more was that Milan's La Scala, which snooted his first five operas, had asked permission to produce The Consul in Italian late this year. Menotti felt hopeful that his acceptance...
...many thinks" and many words. Not a few of them have gone into his operas. He put his concern with faith into The Medium; he was raised a Roman Catholic, and although he says he has lost his religious faith, "I have not lost faith in faith." In The Consul his thesis is "To this we've come; that men withhold the world from...
...language, but after 20 years in the U.S., his English is unfaltering and fluent. When he sits down to work his ideas into words & music, he finds that suggestions for both generally occur to him simultaneously. The result, as in his heroine's second-act aria in The Consul, is not only moving music but clean, singable English...