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...star in Gian-Carlo Menotti's eerie chamber opera, The Medium. When Menotti's modest opera was first tried out last season it got warm but not glowing reviews (TIME, May 20, 1946). On a gamble, its composer put it on Broadway in May of this year, hoped it would run two weeks. It has been running ever since, and last week, for the third time, its run was extended. Marie's portrayal of the opera's title character has had a lot to do with The Medium's success. She is by no means...
...season Broadway productions are usually of the "Blossom Time" or "light summer fare" school. This year's June audiences, though, are being given a preview of what may turn out to be a musical revolution that has been brewing in New York for decades. Gian-Carlo Menotti, young Italian-born American composer, has written an opera, and unlike most of his fellow composers, he has had the right combination of skill and luck to get it produced-at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre along with his curtain-raiser, "The Telephone...
Like smart young Composer Gian-Carlo (The Medium) Menotti (TIME, March 3), Britten has written for a small cast and a chamber orchestra so that his opera can be performed easily and often. His newest music is easier to listen to than to sing. Said Baritone Frank Rogier, who sang the role of Seducer Tarquinius: "Any time you sound in tune with the orchestra, you're off. So you go in the other direction." But Britten's insistent, subtle use of rhythmic and dissonant backgrounds put a wallop into Librettist Ronald Duncan's seething play. The opera...
Musicals were few but they were particularly adventurous and fresh. Finian's Rainbow and Brigadoon snubbed formulas while successfully serenading fantasy; and even such a flop as Beggars' Holiday had the courage of its confusions. Meanwhile, two generally effective musical plays, Street Scene and Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Medium, started battering down the partition between theater and opera...
Invitation to Music (Wed. 11:30 p.m., CBS). First radio performance of Gian-Carlo Menotti's modern opera-in-miniature, The Telephone...