Amahl! Albert Husson adapted his first dramatic play without music, A Copy of Madame Aupic (1943), into a French language play which premiered in Paris in 1959. [3] His father was a businessman and his mother a talented amateur musician. The success of Amelia Goes to the Ball earned Menotti a commission to compose a radio opera for the NBC Radio Network, The Old Maid and the Thief, one of the first such works. Type song title, artist or lyrics. Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the night visitors by Menotti, Gian Carlo, 1911-2007. [3], Critical appraisal of Menotti’s works have spanned a wide range, and he experienced varied reactions to his music during his career. Premiere by C.B.S. (HL.50337800). Also worthy of note is a small Mass commissioned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore – Mass for the Contemporary English Liturgy. Lyrics for Amahl! Like Wagner, Menotti wrote the libretti of all his operas. [3] In 1986 his opera Goya, written for Placido Domingo, was given its première by the Washington National Opera. Type song title, ... Sign in Sign up. Sign in Sign up. It is incapable of expressing joy or humor. In 1977 Menotti founded Spoleto Festival USA, a companion festival to his Spoleto Festival (the other of its Two Worlds), in Charleston, South Carolina. [5] In 1928, he met fellow Curtis schoolmate Samuel Barber, who became his partner in life as well as in their shared profession. [3], While principally writing in the verismo style, Menotti did use some newer 20th century harmonic techniques and language when they served the dramatic intent of his works. In 1958 richtte hij het Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto op, waar hij naast zijn eigen werken, ook werken van derden regisseerde. [34], Kerman's scathing attack on Menotti was the beginning of a ambivalent relationship with music criticism for the composer which increased in the critical climate of the 1960s in which reviewers favored serialism and the musical avant-garde over Menotti's Italian verismo inspired style. [4] Also in 1963, his cantata The Death of the Bishop of Brindisi concerning the Children's Crusade of 1212 premiered at the Cincinnati May Festival to good reviews. This work was performed as a home puppet show, a passion that occupied Gian Carlo's youth after he was introduced to the art from his older brother Pier Antonio. [3][13] The Medium was also made into a motion picture in 1951 starring Marie Powers and Anna Maria Alberghetti and competed in the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. Gian Carlo Menotti (Cadegliano-Viconago, 7 juli 1911 - Monte Carlo, 1 februari 2007) was … The opera was given its first international staging in Sanremo, Italy that same year. Amahl! [4] His opera Tamu-Tamu premiered in 1973 at the Studebaker Theatre in Chicago as part of the IX Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.[4]. This was the first opera composed for television in the United States and debuted at the NBC studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, New York City.Set in Bethlehem in the first century after the birth of Christ, this opera is one act long. Publication date 1952 Topics Jesus Christ -- Nativity -- Juvenile fiction, Jesus Christ -- Nativity -- Fiction, Jesus Christ, Magi -- Juvenile fiction, Magi, Nativity of Jesus Christ Publisher Don't Cry, Mother Dear. [3] In his operas his aria-like passages tend to be brief so as not to interrupt the dramatic flow, while his recitative-like passages carefully used natural speech rhythms that make the text easily understood by audiences. [4], The year 1963 was a particularly busy one for Menotti. Gian Carlo Menotti overleed op 95-jarige leeftijd. Amahl! [32] This negative reaction to Menotti's music continued into the 1980s, but then softened as tastes shifted away from serialism and the avant-garde towards neo-romanticism. [30] In 1986, he extended the concept to a Spoleto Festival in Melbourne, Australia. Menotti works performed during the festival included Maria Golovin, Landscapes and Remembrances, Missa O Pulchritudo, and The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore. [3] The family was financially prosperous with his father and uncle jointly operating a coffee exporting firm in Colombia. He wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. [3] That same year his opera Maria Golovin premiered at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. Gian-Carlo Menotti* - Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Conductor David Syrus - Amahl And … [3] He spent three years studying at the conservatory during which time he frequently attended operas at La Scala which cemented his lifetime love for the artform. In 1928 she enrolled him at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music before returning to Italy. In interviews he expressed that this failure taught him "how not to write an opera". There is scant, if any, mention of the composer. Van 1923 tot 1927 studeerde hij aan het Conservatorio "Giuseppe Verdi" (Milaan) van Milaan. Lyrics not available. by Gian Carlo Menotti. [20], In 1967 Thomas Schippers succeeded Menotti as director of the Festival of Two Worlds, although he continued on as President of the festival's Board of Directors for several more decades. His most successful works were composed in the 1940s and 1950s. They are the Three Kings, and they are on their way to Bethlehem to visit the Christ Child, who has just been born. [12][22] Barber had battled depression and alcoholism following the harsh critical reaction to his 1966 opera Antony and Cleopatra which had a negative impact on his creative productivity and his relationship with Menotti. Amahl, Go See Who's Knocking. With Chet Allen, Rosemary Kuhlmann, Andrew McKinley, David Aiken. His last opera for adults, The Wedding, premiered in Seoul, South Korea in 1988. [1] One of the most frequently performed opera composers of the 20th century, his most successful works were written in the 1940s and 1950s. 6. The work was not staged until 1947 when it premiered in New Milford, Connecticut. [14] It is widely regarded as one of the finest examples of opera on film ever made. Born in Cadegliano-Viconago, Italy, near Lake Maggiore and the Swiss border, Menotti was the sixth of ten children of Alfonso and Ines Menotti. [4] This work was followed by The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore (1956), a "madrigal fable" for chorus, ten dancers and nine instruments which was based on the 16th century Italian madrigal comedy. [3] This opera was disparaged by the French and American press, but was particularly well received for performances at opera houses in Italy in succeeding years. Many of his later operas are directed towards children, both as subjects and as performers, including The Egg (1976), The Trial of the Gypsy (1978), Chip and his Dog (1979), A Bride from Pluto (1982), The Boy who Grew too Fast (1982), and his final opera The Singing Child (1993). [3] With Goya (1986), he reverted to a traditional Giovane Scuola Italian style. Menotti died on February 1, 2007, at the age of 95 at Princess Grace Hospital Centre in Monte Carlo, Monaco. [4] Other works from this period include a ballet, Sebastian (1944), and the Piano Concerto in A Minor (1945) which were written before Menotti returned to opera with The Medium in 1946. [3] A composer who purposefully chose to cater to the tastes of the general public, his use of tonal melodies often had a modal flavor, frequently used sequence and repetition, and are easily rememberable. 4. [18] That same year the opera The Last Savage premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and that work was given a lavish production at the Metropolitan Opera in 1964. Directed by Kirk Browning, Gian Carlo Menotti. We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. [22][23][12] Tensions grew between Menotti and Barber, leading Menotti to end their romantic attachment and put 'Capricorn' up for sale in 1970. [4][13] He accepted a position teaching music composition on the faculty of the Curtis Institute in 1948, a post he remained in until 1955. [26] In 1974 he adopted Francis "Chip" Phelan, an American actor and figure skater he had known since the early 1960s. [6] A critical success, the Metropolitan Opera staged the work in 1938 with Muriel Dickson in the title role. [4] Gian Carlo began writing songs when he was seven years old, and at eleven wrote both the libretto and music for his first opera, The Death of Pierrot. Amahl! Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. [4] He was deeply religious in his youth, and was greatly influenced by his parish priest Don Rimoldi. Deze pagina is voor het laatst bewerkt op 25 jan 2021 om 22:54. The home served as their artistic retreat up until 1972. [4] The family performed chamber music together, and with other musicians in the community in evenings hosted in the Menotti household. [9] The New York Philharmonic chose to program portions of the opera in 1942 with conductor Fritz Busch leading the ensemble. Hij emigreerde vervolgens naar de Verenigde Staten, waar hij van 1928 tot 1933 zijn studie vervolgde, bij Rosario Scaleri, aan het toen pas geopende Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia (tot 1955 was hij daar tevens compositiedocent). Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007) If you were to take a music history course, or to read one of the standard college music history texts, you might never learn who Gian Carlo Menotti was. [3] He composed music for the 1968 production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the Théâtre National Populaire with director Michael Cacoyannis. Gian Carlo Menotti was born in Italy in 1911 during the Modern Period. [25] While there, he jokingly stated his Scottish neighbors referred to hims as "Mr McNotti". Menotti was een muzikale duizendpoot. [36], In 2010, the main theatre in Spoleto was renamed as the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti to honour his role as creator and spirit of the festival. Armed with a letter of introduction from the wife of Arturo Toscanini, Gian Carlo studied composition at Curtis under Rosario Scalero. [32] Viewed as a regressive musical conservative in this period, critics tended to dismiss his work as derivative or overly melodramatic. At the age of 7, under the gui-dance of his mother, he began to compose songs, and four years later he wrote the words and music of his first opera, The Death of Pierrot. Gian Carlo Menotti. In 1997, he was awarded the Brock Commission from the American Choral Directors Association. Although not initially conceived as a work for the stage, the opera premiered in a live theatrical performance on June 3, 1964 at the Bristol Cathedral for the opening of the 17th annual Bath International Music Festival. Commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation, the work premiered at the Library of Congress in 1956 and was then staged by the New York City Ballet with dancers Nicholas Magallanes and Arthur Mitchell in 1957.[4]. Gian Carlo Menotti was born on 7 July 1911, in Cadegliano, Italy. [3] The work tells the story of the daughter of Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, and was the last opera Sills added to her repertory before retiring. The Melbourne Spoleto Festival has now become the Melbourne International Arts Festival. ‘Christmas opera’ and ‘Amahl and the Night Visitors’ are two of his most distinguished works. [3] It was the first opera ever written for television in America, and first aired on Christmas Eve, 1951 with Chet Allen as Amahl and Rosemary Kuhlmann and his mother. The movement towards neo-romanticism during the last 20 years has tended to favour Barber, who used an excellent libretto from Menotti for his grand opera Vanessa, produced at the Met in 1958. After graduating from the Curtis Institute in the spring of 1933, Menotti and Barber spent the following summer in Austria where Menotti began writing the libretto for his first mature opera, Amelia Goes to the Ball (Amelia al Ballo), to his own Italian text while staying in a small village on Lake Wolfgang. [4] He spent the majority of the next four years pursuing further musical studies in Europe, and he did not finish composing the music for the opera until his return to the United States in 1937. De tekst is beschikbaar onder de licentie. His father was a businessman who had a coffee business and his mother was a musician. Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti, published by G Schirmer Inc 3. Chorus, Piano, Vocal sheet music book by Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-): G. Schirmer at Sheet Music Plus. Gian Carlo Menotti, Thomas Schipper, Chet Allen, boy soprano, Rosemary Kuhlmann, mezzo-soprano, Andrew McKinley, tenor - Menotti: Amahl And The Night Visitors - Amazon.com Music The two frequently hosted salon gatherings at Capricorn with other well known composers, artists, musicians, and intellectuals in attendance. His early career was mainly marked by critical and commercial success, with the operas Amelia Goes to the Ball (1937), The Old Maid and the Thief (1939), The Medium (1946), The Telephone (1947), The Consul (1950), Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951), and The Saint of Bleecker Street (1954) all demonstrating popular appeal and overall favorable reviews. He founded the Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) in Spoleto in 1958 and its American counterpart, Spoleto Festival USA, in 1977. [3] He believed this work failed because the libretto he wrote relied too heavily on metaphysics which resulted in an overly pretentious philosophical and symbolic work that failed to connect with audiences. [3] The work won both the Pulitzer Prize for Music and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Musical Play of the Year (the latter in 1954). [16] The opera was such a success that the broadcasting of Amahl and the Night Visitors became an annual Christmas tradition. He wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951), along with over two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist. In honour of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, the American Choral Directors Association commissioned Gloria as part of the Mass celebrating the occasion. While all of his works used English language libretti, three of his operas also had Italian language libretti penned by the composer: Amelia Goes to the Ball (1937), The Island God (1942), and The Last Savage (1963). Gian Carlo Menotti. Notable among these is his cantata The Death of the Bishop of Brindisi, written in 1963, and the cantata Landscapes and Remembrances in 1976 – a descriptive work of Menotti's memories of America written for the United States Bicentennial. The work has also been staged by numerous opera companies, universities, and other institutions, and became one of the most frequently performed operas of the 20th century. [31] Menotti left Spoleto USA in 1993 to take the helm of the Rome Opera. [3], In 1951, Menotti wrote his Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors for NBC which was inspired by Hieronymus Bosch's painting Adoration of the Magi (c. [3] The Curtis Institute presented the world premiere of the opera at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia with Margaret Daum as Amelia in April 1937, and this was soon followed by professional stagings later that year at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore and the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City with soprano Florence Kirk in the title role. Menotti was the artistic director during the period of 1986–88, but after three festivals there, he decided to withdraw – and took the naming rights with him. 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For three weeks each summer, Spoleto is visited by nearly a half-million people. [17] Set in contemporary New York, the opera is concerned with the conflict of the physical and spiritual worlds. [3][4] He later revised the libretto for Barber's Antony and Cleopatra (1966). [3] An opera focusing on racial tensions in America with a central black hero, the work was poorly received by most critics. WWW site, July 26, 2001 (Amahl and the night visitors (TV opera, 1 act), 1951) found : LC in OCLC, July 26, 2001 (hdg. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Gian Carlo Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors - Alastair Willis on AllMusic - 2008 - This 2007 recording of Amahl and the Night… His television opera Labyrinth was premiered by the NBC Opera Theatre. Find release reviews and credits for Gian Carlo Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors - Alastair Willis on AllMusic - 2008 - This 2007 recording of Amahl and the Night… At the age of 7, under the guidance of his mother, he began to compose songs, and four years later he wrote the words and music of his first opera, The Death of Pierrot.In 1923 he began his formal musical training at … [24][22] In 1972 Menotti purchased Yester House, an 18th century estate in the Lammermuir Hills, East Lothian, Scotland. [2][3] Rejecting atonality and the aesthetic of the Second Viennese School, Menotti's music is characterized by expressive lyricism which carefully sets language to natural rhythms in ways that highlight textual meaning and underscore dramatic intent.[2][3]. [11], In 1943, Menotti and Barber purchased ‘Capricorn’, a house north of Manhattan in suburban Mount Kisco, New York. [4], Menotti wrote a chamber opera, Martin's Lie (1964) under commissioned by CBS for American television. Listen to Amahl! [4] However, Menotti personally believed that this was one of his best operas on par with The Consul and The Saint of Bleecker Street.
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