Word: gian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last-ditch Verdi-lovers turned out to express their disapproval, greeted the opening curtain with whistles, catcalls and shouts of "Vergogna, vergogna!" (Shame, shame!). But the ruckus was feeble compared with the uproar they raised over Gian-Carlo Menotti's Consul and Juan Jose Castro's Proserpina (TIME, Feb. 5, 1951; March...
...with the Oliviers' not knowing whether they're playing Shaw's Cleopatra or Shakespeare's-a bright idea collapses right at the start. In others, the comedy doesn't know how to build or where to stop. Take-offs on Truman Capote and Gian-Carlo Menotti (written by Comic Ronny Graham), though clever, have not enough magic in their madness. Even Boston Beguine, well sung by the show's topranker, Alice Ghostley, should mingle Harvard and Haiti more hilariously. The show is funniest where the spoofing is broadest: Paul Lynde as a battered African...
Musical Entertainment: Gian-Carlo Menotti and NBC, for the "tender and moving one-act opera Amahl and the Night Visitors...
Amahl and the Night Visitors (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). A new showing of Gian-Carlo Menotti's TV opera, starring Chet Allen...
...Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera, The Medium, walks a tightrope between reality and fantasy. Within the fog-like entity of the musical drama, a spirit world exists. But it exists only in the mind of the Medium, who projects her world into the lives of the other characters. Menotti's eerie music sustains this mood, as the voices of the Medium and her daughter, Monica, float ethereally through the tense atmosphere, finally focusing outward in the sharp song of fear...