Word: menotti
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...annual Harvard Summer School Tour to Plymouth and Falmouth will be held Sat., August 12. Tour includes stops at Plymouth Plantation, Mayflower II, and Falmouth Beach and a performance of Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Medium and The Telephone by the Oberlin College Gilbert and Sullivan Players. Reservations and tickets at the Social Director's Office, 4 Matthews Hall...
...annual Harvard Summer School tour to Plymouth and Falmouth will be held Sat., August 12. Tour includes stops at Plymouth Plantation, May-flower II, and Falmouth Beach and a performance of Gian-Carlo Menotti's.The Medium and The Telephone by the Oberlin College Gilbert and Sullivan Players. Reservations and tickets at the Social Director's office, 4 Matthews Hall...
...designs were the first stage settings by the great English sculptor, Henry Moore, 68, and were the sensation of the opening week of the tenth annual Festival of Two Worlds. When the festival director, Gian Carlo Menotti, first suggested the idea, Moore was reluctant. After all, for years he had declined Sir Laurence Olivier's entreaties to design a production of King Lear for Britain's National Theater. But then Moore agreed to let Italian Designer Fiorella Mariani adapt settings from his existing works. When he saw the results, he was so pleased that he immediately...
...Menotti says of the unusual collaboration: "We both wanted simplicity, universality and timelessness, eliminating all the unnecessary claptrap." In the flexible, open spaces, Menotti deployed his accomplished cast of American and Italian singers in fluid lines and ghostly dances, spelling out his concept that "the whole opera is based on the characters' search for each other." The designs simplified rather than complicated his problems of staging. Moore's sets "do not swamp the opera but bring out its tragedy and symbolism," Menotti says. "His sculptures are passionate and compassionate: they seem to be listening to Mozart...
...charming, energetic ex-composer, firmly controls quality by adjusting the tiniest strokes of stage business and watching nearly every performance. In the belief that "seduction of the audience through the eye is easier than through the ear," he has brought such gifted directors as Jean-Louis Barrault and GianCarlo Menotti to Hamburg to stage his productions; and as a musician, he has persuaded such fellow composers as Hans Werner Henze, Ernst Krenek and Krzystof Penderecki to write new operas for the company...