Word: gian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gian-Carlo Menotti...
...adrift, the New York City Opera announced a spring season in the best Halasz tradition. In addition to eleven operas from current repertory, it promised productions of i) Alban Berg's tragic opera, Wozzeck, which no U.S. audience has seen in 21 years, 2) a stage version of Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, and 3) a new adaptation, by Marc Blitzstein, of Kurt Weill's The Three-Penny Opera. Possible hitch: Halasz, who is still fighting his year-end dismissal (TIME, Dec. 31), contends that, under his last contract, none of last year...
Other winners: Bohuslav Martinu's Comedy on the Bridge (best new opera), Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony (best choral work), William Schuman's Judith (best dance score), Gian-Carlo Menotti's TV opera Amahl and the Night Visitors (a special citation to Menotti...
...Gian-Carlo Menotti believes that "any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intensely he must sing it out." Standing before Hieronymous Bosch's The Adoration of the Magi one day in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Menotti felt the old intensity welling up inside. He found himself thinking about miracles of faith, and of his own childhood lameness which was cured-miraculously, he believes-when he was four. As he stood there, he knew he had the subject for his seventh opera...
...Opera (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). First showing of Gian Carlo Menotti's new work, Amahl and the Night Visitors...