Menotti, Gian Carlo 1911-2007

Overview

Works:	1,344 works in 3,407 publications in 8 languages and 40,461 library holdings
Genres:	Operas Juvenile works Fiction Vocal scores Christmas music Television operas Drama Christmas fiction Musical settings Made-for-TV movies
Subject Headings:	Composers
Roles:	Author, Librettist, Composer, Lyricist, Director, Producer, Speaker, Other, Musician, Editor, Set designer , Commentator, Performer, Interviewee, Bibliographic antecedent, Arranger, Production personnel, Creator, Singer, dir, Dancer, lib
Classifications:	M1503.M5494, 782.1

Publication Timeline

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 )

Der Konsul by Gian Carlo Menotti( Visual )
Something about the author( )
Contemporary musicians : profiles of the people in music by Laura Hightower( )
Gian Carlo Menotti( Book )
Gian Carlo Menotti : l'homme et son oeuvre by Robert Tricoire( 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 )
Gian-Carlo Menotti : his dramatic techniques : a study based on works written 1937-1954 by Mary Irene Casmus( )
Callas in her own words by Maria Callas( Recording )
Verismo in the works of Gian Carlo Menotti : a comparison with late nineteenth-century Italian opera by Víctor Chacón Vargas( Book )
Goya by Francisco Goya( Visual )
La loca by Gian Carlo Menotti( )

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Most widely held works by Gian Carlo Menotti

Amahl and the night visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti( Book )

52 editions published between 1951 and 1991 in 4 languages and held by 2,667 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 : [Opera in one act] by Gian Carlo Menotti( Recording )

98 editions published between 1900 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 1,526 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Amahl, a little crippled shepard boy is visited by the Three Wise Men on their way to Bethelehem

Amahl and the night visitors : opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti( )

68 editions published between 1951 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 1,350 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

The medium : tragedy in 2 acts by Gian Carlo Menotti( )

48 editions published between 1947 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 1,180 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The consul by Gian Carlo Menotti( Recording )

53 editions published between 1950 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 1,113 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A freedom fighter's family tries deperately to escape the country, only to be thwarted by the Consulate

The medium by Gian Carlo Menotti( Recording )

50 editions published between 1947 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 965 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Opera Society of Washington; Jorge Mester, conductor; singers: Regina Resnik, Judith Blegen, Emily Derr, Julian Patrick, Claudine Carlson; notes included

The telephone, or, L'amour à trois : opera buffa in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti( )

33 editions published between 1947 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 933 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The consul : musical drama in three acts by Gian Carlo Menotti( )

35 editions published between 1950 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 893 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The old maid and the thief; a grotesque opera in 14 scenes by Gian Carlo Menotti( )

36 editions published between 1942 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 826 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Vanessa by Samuel Barber( Recording )

38 editions published between 1957 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 820 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 saint of Bleecker Street by Gian Carlo Menotti( Recording )

27 editions published between 1955 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 760 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Amahl and the night visitors : original cast of the NBC telecast, Christmas Eve, 1951 by Gian Carlo Menotti( Recording )

6 editions published between 1952 and 1987 in English and held by 732 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Amahl and the night visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti( Visual )

13 editions published between 1955 and 2015 in English and held by 582 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 old maid and the thief by Gian Carlo Menotti( Recording )

26 editions published between 1939 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 582 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Antony and Cleopatra by Samuel Barber( Recording )

9 editions published between 1984 and 2012 in English and held by 579 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 saint of Bleecker Street : musical drama in three acts (five scenes) by Gian Carlo Menotti( )

22 editions published between 1954 and 1990 in 5 languages and held by 552 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Goya by Gian Carlo Menotti( )

19 editions published between 1992 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 507 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Help, help, the globolinks : an opera in one act for children and those who like children by Gian Carlo Menotti( )

21 editions published between 1969 and 2007 in 4 languages and held by 494 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A hand of bridge : for four solo voices and chamber orchestra : [op. 35] by Samuel Barber( )

9 editions published between 1959 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 468 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The unicorn, the gorgon, and the manticore; or, The three Sundays of a poet :a madrigal fable for chorus, ten dancers, and nine instruments : reduction for the pianoforte by Gian Carlo Menotti( )

43 editions published between 1956 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 440 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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