Word: menotti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modernist composers, Darius Milhaud. But what held them in their seats and sent them home happy was the light, tripping music and witty text of a little musical farce called Amelia Goes to the Ball, by an unknown graduate of the Institute, a youngster of 25 named Gian-Carlo Menotti. Next year Amelia made the Metropolitan, was so successful that it became a permanent part of the Met's repertory...
...Armand Tokatyan (Rodolfo) hit his top notes squarely but could not resist hanging on to them. Rosa Tentoni sang Mimi with more intelligence than warmth. Soprano Margaret Daum, who took the lead in Gian-Carlo Menotti's recent Amelia Goes to the Ball, overacted impudent Musetta, won praise for her fluty, delightful singing...
Afterward came the work that many had traveled expressly to hear. Mrs. Bok had praised it to the skies, called its author, 25-year-old Gian-Carlo Menotti, one of the two great talents developed by Curtis, arranged the whole evening to give her protege a hearing. Though Amelia Al Ballo (Amelia Goes to the Ball) hardly justified her claims, it was full of glowing, facetious music admirably suited to the story of a woman who betrayed her lover, assaulted her husband and flirted with a policeman so as not to miss the big ball of the season. Young Menotti...
Gian-Carlo Menotti was born near Milan. His father was a wealthy importer who did business with Colombia. His mother taught Gregorian chant in a local church. Save for her, young Gian-Carlo had little music instruction until he was 18. In that year Father Menotti died, and Gian-Carlo went to South America to set tle his accounts. Later, in New York, he met Rosario Scalero of Curtis Institute who got him a scholarship there...
Dark, ingratiating Gian-Carlo finished his opera last summer, wrote the libretto (in Italian) as well as the score. Because he believes music should match words, young Menotti rewrote much of his score to fit George Mead's English translation of the text. Menotti is already hard at work on another opera called The Last Superman, about which he will reveal nothing save that it begins with some old ladies playing bridge. At Curtis he met Samuel Barber, 26, of Westchester, Pa., who was beaming at Menotti's premiere last week, as fortnight ago Menotti was beaming...