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Living Death. The results might have been even more impressive if the librettist had written the score instead of the book. The librettist (and stage director): Composer Gian Carlo (The Saint of Bleecker Street) Menotti, who writes the words for his own rousing operas, this time undertook to serve as librettist to his longtime friend Sam Barber. Menotti's yarn is like a pulse-bumping 19th century melodrama that lacks the courage of its afflictions. The lover, when he finally arrives, is not the man Vanessa was waiting for, but his son Anatol, a fatally charming young...
Married. Alan Jay Lerner, 39, Broadway librettist (My Fair Lady, Brigadoon) ; and Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo, Parisian lawyer; he for the third time, she for the second; in Manhattan...
...work, which Strauss regarded as his most important effort, out of the standard repertory is its length (four hours) and the wild complexity of Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal's libretto, compared to which a combination of The Magic Flute and Parsifal would seem simple. The story, embroidered by Librettist Hofmannsthal with the myths of not one but half a dozen cultures, concerns a beautiful empress who, being born of a spirit, does not possess anything as human as a shadow-or the ability to bear children. Since she is married to a more human ruler, she must acquire...
...young at 46 to be urgently in need of one, Composer-Librettist Gian Carlo Menotti (The Consul, The Saint of Bleecker Street) was asked how he would phrase his own obituary. Much moved at the thought of his passing, Menotti ad-libbed a lyric that might be sung to one of his own scores: "Last night while he was having dinner, he suddenly vanished without a whimper, into thin air. A few drops of perfume fell on the table, and a heavenly choir was heard in the distance. As nothing has been heard from him since, we presume that...
Oscar Hammerstein II, librettist .L.H.D...