Word: menotti
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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...
...curtain-raiser, the Guild offered Menotti's The Telephone (1947), an oft-done two-character farce about a lad on the make for a lass; but, alas, her auricular and ventricular concerns are maddeningly telephonic...
...addition, the Guild will present Menotti's The Telephone as a fall workshop, Kennedy added. Casting for both productions will start Sunday and continue through Tuesday...
...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...