Best Menotti
The Consul is a 1950 opera composed by Gian Carlo Menotti, featuring an English libretto written by the composer himself. The narrative portrays the harrowing bureaucratic struggles of a woman attempting to secure a visa to escape an unnamed totalitarian regime. The work incorporates elements of ver...
The Medium is a short tragic opera in two acts, with music and an English-language libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, first performed in 1946. It follows Madame Flora, a fraudulent medium whose staged seances are disrupted by an experience she cannot explain, leading to fear, suspicion, and violence. I...
Amahl and the Night Visitors is a one-act Christmas opera composed by Gian Carlo Menotti and first broadcast by NBC in 1951. Written specifically for television, it tells of a disabled boy and his mother who shelter the Three Kings during their journey to visit the Christ child. Its English libretto...
Gian Carlo Menotti's one-act comic opera (1947) depicting a man unable to propose marriage to a woman perpetually distracted by the telephone.
