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- Gian Carlo Menotti dies at 95 in Monaco
[posted 2 February 2007]The Italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti died yesterday in Monaco. He was 95 years old. Menotti spent much of his life in the United States and saw himself as an American composer, but never gave up his Italian citizenship.
He was popular as a composer of operas — he wrote his first one before he was 11 years old — but he was also criticised that his music was not very adventurous. On two occasions he won the Pullitzer Prize.
Menotti has one son, Francis, whom he adopted after he met him in the 1970s.
[Source: www.nytimes.com]
Music
Operas
- “The Death of Pierrot” (1922)
- “Little Mermaid”
- “Amelia al Ballo” (1937)
- “The Island God” (1942)
- “The Medium” (1946)
- “The Telephone” (1947)
- “The Consul” (1950)
- “The Saint of Bleeker Street”
- “Labyrinth” (1963)
- “The Last Savage” (1963)
- “Martin’s Lie” (1964)
- “Help, Help, the Globolinks” (1968)
- “The Most Important Man” (1971)
- “The Hero” (1976)
- “The Egg” (1976)
- “The Trial of the Gypsy” (1978)
In total he wrote 25 operas. Menotti also wrote his own libretti, and often also staged his own works.
Works for radio
- “The Old Maid and the Thief” (1939)
- “Amahl and the Night Visitors”
Life
Gian Carlo Menotti is seen by many, and saw himself an American composer, but he never gave up his Italian citizenship. He studied composition with Scalero at the Curtis Institute, Philadelphia. Menotti has written librettos of his own operas and of Barber’s Vanesa. Samuel Barber also was Menotti’s companion for life. He also founded the Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto, Italy.
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