GIAN CARLO MENOTTI ; Opera composer of extraordinary popularity and founder of the Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto

The Independent - London | February 3, 2007| | Copyright

Gian Carlo Menotti was one of the most successful opera composers of the mid-20th century. He had an inborn sense of the theatre, inheriting the tradition of Puccini, with an intuitive feel for character and drama, which served him faultlessly in a fusion of music and theatre to his own texts - almost all in English. Menotti remained Italian to the core, even though he spent most of his life based in America before, improbably, buying a country mansion in Scotland.

He was born in Cadegliano, on Lake Lugano, in 1911, the sixth of eight surviving children in a large family network. His mother, ...

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