Menotti, Gian Carlo 1911-2007

Overview

Works:	1,042 works in 2,784 publications in 6 languages and 36,117 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Juvenile works Drama Musical settings Stories, plots, etc Interviews Manuscripts Christmas music Film adaptations Music
Subject Headings:	Composers
Roles:	Librettist, Composer, Lyricist, Director, Production personnel, Producer, Speaker, Other, Set designer , Commentator, Creator, Performer, Interviewee, Singer, Dancer, dir, Arranger, lib, Compiler
Classifications:	M1503.M5494, 782.1

Publication Timeline

1930 |

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Publications about Gian Carlo Menotti

Publications by Gian Carlo Menotti

Publications by Gian Carlo Menotti, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Gian Carlo Menotti

Menotti : a biography by John Gruen ( Book )
The stages of Menotti by John Ardoin ( Book )
The operas of Gian Carlo Menotti, 1937-1972; a selective bibliography by Lyndal Grieb ( Book )
Gian Carlo Menotti : a bio-bibliography by Donald L Hixon ( Book )
Gian Carlo Menotti on screen : opera, dance, and choral works on film, television, and video by Ken Wlaschin ( Book )

Second essay for orchestra, op. 17 ; Music for a scene from Shelley, op. 7 ; A stopwatch and an ordnance map, op. 13 ; A hand of bridge, chamber opera, op. 35 ; Serenade for strings, op. 1 by Samuel Barber ( Recording )
Gian Carlo Menotti ( Book )
Something about the author ( )
Der Konsul by Gian Carlo Menotti ( Visual )
Gian Carlo Menotti, l'homme et son oeuvre ... : Catalogue des oeuvres, discographie by Robert Tricoire ( Book )
Contemporary musicians. profiles of the people in music ( Book )
Menotti il duca di Spoleto e il suo amico Barber by Nicola Sbisà ( Book )
The fate behind the fête by Mary deForest Geary ( Book )
Io, Menotti : due zanzare a Yester House by Gian Carlo Menotti ( Book )
Gian Carlo Menotti, Trio by Verdehr Trio ( Visual )
Gian-Carlo Menotti total musical theatre ; a study of his operas by Richard J Marriott ( Book )
Callas in her own words by Maria Callas ( Recording )
Gian-Carlo Menotti his dramatic techniques : a study based on works written 1937-1954 by Mary Irene Casmus ( )
Gian Carlo Menotti by John Gruen ( Book )
Verismo in the works of Gian Carlo Menotti : a comparison with late nineteenth-century Italian opera by Victor Chacon ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Gian Carlo Menotti

Amahl and the night visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti ( Book )
40 editions published between 1951 and 1991 in English and held by 2,866 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Relates how a crippled young shepherd comes to accompany the three Kings on their way to pay hommage to the newborn Jesus

Amahl and the night visitors original cast of the NBC telecast, Christmas Eve, 1951 by Gian Carlo Menotti ( Recording )
88 editions published between 1951 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 2,016 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Amahl, a little crippled shepard boy is visited by the Three Wise Men on their way to Bethelehem

The telephone, or, L'amour à trois : opera buffa in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti ( )
54 editions published between 1947 and 2005 in 6 languages and held by 1,524 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Amahl and the night visitors : opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti ( )
80 editions published between 1951 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 1,411 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Relates how a crippled young shepherd comes to accompany the three Kings on their way to pay hommage to the newborn Jesus

Vanessa by Samuel Barber ( Recording )
39 editions published between 1957 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,009 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This broadcast, recorded just two weeks after Vanessa's Met world premiere, presents the original cast in spectacular form. Eleanor Steber is marvelous as the title heroine, a beautiful woman awaiting the return of her long-lost lover. But the man who arrives is his son, Anatol (a suave Nicolai Gedda). The handsome youth plays a dangerous emotional game of wooing both Vanessa and her niece Erika (an enchanting Rosalind Elias)--with devastating consequences. Regina Resnik stars as the Old Baroness and Giorgio Tozzi is the kind Doctor. Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos gives an impassioned reading of Barber's superb score

The consul : musical drama in three acts by Gian Carlo Menotti ( )
48 editions published between 1950 and 2000 in 4 languages and held by 998 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The medium by Gian Carlo Menotti ( Recording )
54 editions published between 1947 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 894 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Opera Society of Washington; Jorge Mester, conductor; singers: Regina Resnik, Judith Blegen, Emily Derr, Julian Patrick, Claudine Carlson; notes included

Amahl and the night visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti ( Visual )
33 editions published between 1952 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 862 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A disabled shepherd boy and his mother are visited by three men on their way to see the Baby Jesus in Bethlehem

The consul by Gian Carlo Menotti ( Recording )
43 editions published between 1950 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 845 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A freedom fighter's family tries deperately to escape the country, only to be thwarted by the Consulate

The old maid and the thief; a grotesque opera in 14 scenes by Gian Carlo Menotti ( )
41 editions published between 1943 and 1990 in 4 languages and held by 825 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Vanessa : opera in three acts : vocal score by Samuel Barber ( )
30 editions published between 1957 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 755 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Amelia al ballo : opera buffa in un atto, opera completa per canto e pianoforte by Gian Carlo Menotti ( )
65 editions published between 1937 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 609 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Antony and Cleopatra by Samuel Barber ( Recording )
10 editions published between 1984 and 2012 in English and held by 601 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This broadcast captures the gala performance that opened the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's last opera. Based on Shakespeare's play, adapted as a libretto by director Franco Zeffirelli, it stars the great Leontyne Price as the legendary Queen of Egypt, opposite Justino Díaz as her lover, the Roman general Antony, and Jess Thomas as Caesar, who defeats him. Rosalind Elias is Cleopatra's servant, Charmian, and Ezio Flagello sings Enobarbus, Antony's lieutenant. Thomas Schippers conducts the Met's vast musical forces

The medium : tragedy in two acts by Gian Carlo Menotti ( )
25 editions published between 1947 and 1997 in 3 languages and held by 568 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The saint of Bleecker Street : musical drama in three acts (five scenes) by Gian Carlo Menotti ( )
21 editions published between 1954 and 1980 in 6 languages and held by 563 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The old maid and the thief by Gian Carlo Menotti ( Recording )
28 editions published between 1939 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 557 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A hand of bridge : for four solo voices and chamber orchestra : [op. 35] by Samuel Barber ( )
12 editions published between 1960 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 494 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Help, help, the globolinks : an opera in 1 act for children and those who like children by Gian Carlo Menotti ( )
20 editions published between 1969 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 476 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The last savage by Gian Carlo Menotti ( Book )
4 editions published in 1964 in English and held by 448 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The saint of Bleecker Street by Gian Carlo Menotti ( Recording )
26 editions published between 1955 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 444 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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