Gian Carlo Menotti, who organized music festivals in Spoleto, Italy, and the U.S. and helped bring opera to the masses with his repeatedly televised Christmas work “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” died ...

Princeton University students from all walks of life will get together tonight to have a ball, and it won’t be just another joyous expression of TGIF. Rather, members of the Princeton Opera Company ...

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Italian-American composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti, Brigham Young University’s School of Music will present two of his hour-long operas ...

Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, composer of the opera Amahl and the Night Visitors and founder of the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, died today at a hospital in Monaco, according to a statement from ...

Gian Carlo Menotti, composer: born Cadegliano, Italy 7 July 1911; (one adopted son); died Monte Carlo 1 February 2007. Gian Carlo Menotti was one of the most successful opera composers of the mid-20th ...

Opera Project Columbus Music Director Alessandro Siciliani will conduct the troupe's new production, "Great American Opera: Menotti & Gershwin," March 11 and 13 in the Lincoln Theatre. In the ...

You might think that a composer who had just finished a major opera would reward himself with a bit of a rest — especially when that opera required a down-to-the-wire burst of writing, revising and ...

The Consul was composed by Gian Carlo Menotti and made its debut on March 1, 1950, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It would go on to win the New York Drama Critic Circle award as the Best Musical Play ...

Beginning in the 1920s, they were all the rage until TV took over in the 1950s. Purely acoustic creations, they relied on dialogue, music and sound effects to create drama in the minds of listeners.

Gian Carlo Menotti, who organized music festivals in Spoleto, Italy, and the U.S. and helped bring opera to the masses with his repeatedly televised Christmas work “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” died ...