Composer Gian Carlo Menotti dies at 95
Composer Gian Carlo Menotti dies at 95
#1Composer Gian Carlo Menotti dies at 95
Posted: 2/2/07 at 1:16pm
ROME (AP) -- Gian Carlo Menotti, who composed a pair of Pulitzer Prize-winning operas and founded the Spoleto arts festivals in Italy and the United States, died Thursday at a hospital in Monaco. He was 95.
"He died pretty peacefully and without any pain. He died in my arms," said his adopted son, Francis Menotti, by telephone from Monte Carlo.
The Italian composer won Pulitzers for a pair of the 20th century's more acclaimed operas: "The Consul," which premiered in 1950 in Philadelphia, and "The Saint of Bleecker Street," which opened at New York's Broadway Theater in 1954. "The Consul" also earned him the New York Drama Critics Circle award as the best musical play of the year in 1954.
He also wrote the Christmas classic "Amahl and the Night Visitors" for NBC, which was broadcast in 1951 and may have been the first opera written for television.
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#2re: Composer Gian Carlo Menotti dies at 95
Posted: 2/2/07 at 1:19pm
One of my all time favorites was his one act opera called 'The Medium'.
It's a sad loss.
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Posted: 2/2/07 at 1:21pm
it's sad that Rath picked this type of post to be her loving, friendly self.....
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Posted: 2/2/07 at 9:16pm
Aww! That's so sad! He was brilliant. 
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