Word: gian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amahl and the Night Visitors (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). NBC Opera Company's annual Christmas performance of Gian Carlo Menotti's modern classic...
...tastes, came home from her first European tour, on which she wowed audiences at both ends of the musical spectrum. Eileen opened her tour in London's Albert Hall with a well-acclaimed program of Wagner, Weber, Verdi and Puccini. Moving on to Italy, she popped up at Gian Carlo Menotti's Spoleto Music Festival. Commented she, after an exhausting Requiem: "Verdi must have hated sopranos!" She also belted out On the Sunny Side of the Street in an impromptu fill-in appearance for ailing Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong (TIME, July 6). Among the raves that she collected...
...publisher's warehouse in Milan last fall, Kalamazoo-born Conductor Thomas Schippers discovered an opera score dedicated to Queen Margherita * of Italy and tied up in purple string. In Spoleto last week, at the opening of Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds, he unwrapped his find before a capacity audience. Italian critics promptly hailed the long-forgotten work as one of the finest creations of Composer Gaetano Donizetti...
MacNeil's first break was his selection by Gian Carlo Menotti for the role of the husband in The Consul. On Menotti's advice, he studied opera seriously for 2½ years while working nights at a Bulova Watch plant making analogue digital computers. With some misgivings, he finally gave up his $200-a-week job with Bulova to become a regular member of the New York City Opera. MacNeil now specializes in Verdian roles, plans at last to learn Italian. "Once," he recalls ruefully, "I was singing Traviata and flung my hand out because the music felt...
...Italian opera, e.g., Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini, many of whose original manuscripts, for safekeeping, now lie crammed into 17 zinc cases, 45 feet below ground in a Milan bank. The House of Ricordi still publishes the works of many of the world's leading composers, including Francis Poulenc, Gian Carlo Menotti, Edgard Varese. Now 151 years old, the firm is making news by breaking with its own austere traditions and branching out into new fields. Items: Ricordi is 1) exchanging its old, cramped print shop for a brand-new, concrete-and-glass plant on Milan's outskirts...