Word: gian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first production of new theatrical groups all too often are, at best, promising. But the newly formed Dunster House Music and Drama Society is an exception. With its production of two operas by Gian-Carlo Menotti, this group has very definitely arrived. From every point of view--singing, acting, staging--The Medium, main feature of the evening, is a superlative theatrical experience. And The Telephone, the curtain-raiser which precedes it, makes a very pleasant comic aperitif...
This year great strides have been taken to redress these unbalances. A Dunster Music-Drama Society was formed, which will produce Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Medium" and "The Telephone." With the Ford Foundation grants, Dunster established two practical workshops, in drama and in visual arts. The workshops meet weekly, and occasionally have guest professionals for brief talks...
...minute operatic treatment of Honoré de Balzac's spine-tingler La Grande Bretêche, with music by California-born Stanley Hollingsworth, 32, pupil and protégé of Gian Carlo Menotti. Commissioned by the NBC Opera Company, Bretêche closely follows the Balzac tale-a bedroom farce given the Grand Guignol treatment- about a wife who hastily conceals her lover in a closet, swears to her husband there is no one there, and then stands by in helpless horror as the husband has the closet bricked up. While much of the original's strength...
...Washington audience that came to be enjoyably affronted by his lecture on "The Audience in Decadence," Composer Gian Carlo Menotti strummed a plain-spoken variation on one of his favorite themes. "It's not the taste of the modern audience which I think decadent." he declaimed, "but rather its character and individuality." The dogmatic tastes of today's audiences are rooted in their esthetic laziness. "I'd much rather sit at dinner next to one of those old ladies who tell you, 'Picasso is a fraud and Stravinsky a bore,' than beside one of those...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Dec. 24, 9:30 p.m., NBC) departs from its straight drama format to present the prize plum of the Christmas pudding-Gian Carlo Menotti's stirring Amahl and the Night Visitors (in color). The tele-opera gets for its seventh TV performance a new Amahl, ten-year-old Kirk Jordan...