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Bookmark or Share- Gian Carlo Menotti - WikipediaGian Carlo Menotti (/ m ə ˈ n ɒ t i /, Italian: [ˈdʒaŋ ˈkarlo meˈnɔtti]; July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer, librettist, director, and playwright who is primarily known for his output of 25 operas. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship.
- Obituary | Gian Carlo Menotti, 95, composer, Spoleto founderROME — Gian Carlo Menotti, who composed a pair of Pulitzer Prize-winning operas and founded the Spoleto arts festivals in the United States and Italy, died Thursday at a Monaco hospital, said...
- Gian Carlo Menotti | 20th Century Composer, Opera LibrettistGian Carlo Menotti (born July 7, 1911, Cadegliano, Italy—died Feb. 1, 2007, Monaco) was an Italian composer, whose operas gained wider popularity than any others of their time. His realistic operas on his own librettos represent a successful combination of 20th-century dramatic situations with the traditional form of Italian opera.
- Gian Carlo Menotti, Composer of ‘Amahl’ and Other Popular Operas, Dies ...Feb. 2, 2007. Gian Carlo Menotti, who wrote his first opera before he was 11 and went on to become perhaps the most popular and prolific opera composer of his time, winning two Pulitzer...
- Gian Carlo Menotti - New World EncyclopediaGian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian -born American composer and librettist who wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. He won the Pulitzer Prize for two of them, The Consul (1950) and The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955).
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