Word: menotti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Gian Carlo Menotti took over the cobbled Umbrian city of Spoleto in 1958 for his first Festival of Two Worlds, the musical fringe of Manhattan's cocktail circuit followed him and introduced the martini to local opera buffs. Italian bluebloods rapidly caught on, and musica é martini dry became the order...
Eight festivals later, Menotti's show has become a way of life. Nobody (who is anybody) comes out for a day or a single event; one settles in for a week or the whole four-week season. "Once you get here, it's impossible to leave," says Countess Alice Spaulding Paolozzi, whose daughter Cristina gave the whole family a certain notoriety by posing nude and chest-high for Harper's Bazaar. Contessa Wally Castelbarco, Toscanini's daughter, "wouldn't miss it for anything," and presides over Gian Carlo's elegant collection of rival hostesses...
...Beethoven in Bonn (Sept. 19-Oct. 10), not to mention the first annual International Mandolin Festival in Verviers, Belgium (July 3). Florence's Maggio Musicale (through June 20) will repeat its popular production of Director-Set Designer Franco Zef-ferelli's Euridice, while Composer Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto, Italy (June 24-July 18), will augment its opera and concert season with Jerome Robbins' new production of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat and five performances of the New York City Ballet...
MARTIN'S LIE (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). The American première of the Gian Carlo Menotti opera that was first performed last June in Bristol Cathedral as part of the Bath Festival. This performance was taped by the original cast...
...Bess got rousing cheers, despite complaints next day from critics over the absence of works by living American composers. There were plenty of living celebrities at the reception that followed: Marian Anderson, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Paul Horgan, Peter Kurd, Jasper Johns, Erich Leinsdorf, Robert Lowell, Gian Carlo Menotti, Anna Moffo, Mark Rothko, W. D. Snodgrass, Edward Steichen, Richard Wilbur, Herman Wouk and Minoru Yamasaki...