Delfino Menotti News
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-25 20:45:39
Atmospheric But Not Dreary
[…] He wrote all sorts of music, but vocal music is really what he’s known for—both choral and operatic. So the voice is not handled the way some opera composers would handle it. The orchestra and the singers are part of the same fabric for sure. *** The librettist Christopher Nolte was a gorgeous leading man, and he was apparently close to Argento for decades. And it, I wonder if, if there was some connection with Menotti and Barber as well. I never asked Dominick about that though. Dominick and Nolte were not in the same kind of relationship as Barber and Menotti. Dominick was involved with women, not with men. I don’t recall having talked about Menotti’s or Barber’s music with him, but Dominick brings similar theatrical craftsmanship to the table. How much the of the libretto is Poe? And how much of it is Nolte? A lot of it […]
2024-01-23 11:00:08
On this day in 1964 the American premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Last Savage took place at the Metropolitan Opera.
2023-12-24 11:00:39
On this night in 1951 Giancarlo Menotti‘s Amahl and the Night Visitors premiered on television
2023-12-21 14:00:57
Field and fountain, moor and Montemezzi
Today’s Three Kings aren’t the ones who arrive in Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera usually performed this time of year
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