Gian Carlo Menotti (1911--2007) is best remembered as an opera composer and founder of three international performing arts festivals. Menotti has left behind a lasting legacy of lyrical and accessible music. Poemetti: 12 Pieces for Children was first published in 1937. These descriptive pieces demonstrate Menotti's celebrated lyric gift as well as the careful craft that characterizes his work. Tak…

Italian-American composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti composed his first opera in English, The Old Maid and the Thief, in 1939. It was commissioned by NBC as a radio opera (to be performed on air) and was premiered by the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Years later, Menotti adapted a theme from the opera's third scene, transforming and expanding it into an advanced two-movement work for solo piano. …

The vocal score to Gian Carlo Menotti's Help Help The Globolinks!.

Commissioned by the BBC Singers for mixed voices a cappella. It is a mocking self-deprecatory portrait written in 1981. In this piece a distraught composer moans as he sits in front of a blank page with an empty head. A flybuzzes around and he calls out to his neighbors and his dog for comfort. Gian-Carlo Menotti's piece effectively conveyed the feeling you get when doing something extremely d…

From Amahl and the Night Visitors-Gian 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 topopular taste.

from The Consul-To This We've Come/i> is Magda's emotional and moving Aria from the Musical Drama the Consul by Gian-Carol Menotti. Arranged for Soprano with a Piano reduction of the original orchestral score.

SATB. A 9-part cantata for chorus four soloists and orchestra. This is an autobiographical statement of Menotti's 45 years of life in America. Each scene represents a specific experience in the composer's life.Commissioned/premiered by Bel Canto Chorus Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

Score and Parts-This brief elegaic work was written to pay homage to Lincoln Center benefactress Alice Tully and was premiered there on October 24 1982. The text is Menotti's own with thoughts of life aging death and rebirth. Being anocturne - a night-piece - it is a modern-day lullaby the end of day or life and it is faced with a serene childlike acceptance of the inevitable. This is refle…

'The Consul' was a phenomenally successfull opera dealing with 20th century issues. It is set in a totalitarian state in which John Sorel is a political dissident fighting for a democratic government. The secret police force himto leave the country and Magda his wife must obtain a visa to leave the country and join him. Insurmountable bureaucracy causes frustrating delays at the consulate. Duri…

The first opera written for television 'Amahl and the Night Visitors' has become the most frequently performed opera of all time with over five hundred performances annually across the world. Menotti's take on theChristmas story focuses on Amahl a young handicapped boy and his mother who are visited by three Kings -- Balthazar Melchior and Kaspar -- who are on their way to find Jesus. The K…

Opera Full Score-The first opera written for television 'Amahl and the Night Visitors' has become the most frequently performed opera of all time with over five hundred performances annually across the world. Menotti's take on theChristmas story focuses on Amahl a young handicapped boy and his mother who are visited by three Kings -- Balthazar Melchior and Kaspar -- who are on their way to …

Score and Parts-Menotti is best kown for his operas but he also excelled in other forms. The Suite for two cellos and piano is part of the standard repertoire for cello duos and contains a stately Introduction a an exciting Scherzo an expressive Arioso and a fast Finale.

The Saint of Bleecker Street is a full-length serious work. Unlike several of Menotti's earlier dramas The Saint of Bleecker Street is more characteristic of a traditional opera. The Saint of Bleecker Street received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play the Music Critics Circle Award for best opera and the Pulitzer Prize in music in 1955.

Description G. Schirmer Opera Anthology - Arias For Soprano Carefully chosen arias to anticipate the needs of singers, teachers and coaches for years to come. Songlist Ach, Ich Fühl's (Die Zauberflöte) [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Adieu, Notre Petite Table (Manon) [Massenet, Jules] Ah Je Rise De Me Voir (Faust) [Gounod, Charles] Ah Je Veux Vivre (Romeo Et Juliette) [Gounod, Charles] Batti…