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*** ,1911
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February 1, 2007 (95 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
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Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti is an Italian-American composer, opera artist, director and playwright famous for producing 25 operas. Although he often calls himself an American composer, he retains his Italian nationality. One of the most performed opera composers of the 20th century, his most successful works were written in the 1940s and 1950s. Heavily influenced by Giacomo Puccini and Modest Mussorgsky, Menotti continued. period. Rejecting the personality and aesthetics of the Second Viennese School, Menotti's music is characterized by expressive lyricism, carefully setting the language to a natural rhythm in a way that emphasizes textual meaning and accents. Like Wagner, Menotti wrote the libretto for all his operas. He wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and The Night Visitors, as well as over two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular tastes.
BornJuly 7, 1911, Cadegliano-Viconago, Italy
DiedFebruary 1, 2007, Monte Carlo, Monaco
OccupationComposer
Period1935–1995
PartnerSamuel Barber

About Gian Carlo Menotti

Composer Gian Carlo Menotti was born in Italy on July 7, 1911. He dies at the age of 95, on February 1, 2007.

He received two Pulitzer Prizes for his operas"The Consul" from 1950 and"The Saint of Bleecker Street" from 1955. His Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, became a classic.

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Gian Carlo Menotti before becoming famous

Gian Carlo Menotti was born in the Zodiac sign Cancer (The Crab), and 1911 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Pig (豬).

He began formal musical studies at the Milan Conservatory in 1923, after writing the libretto and music for his first opera,"The Death of Pierrot", when he was 11 years old.

Achievement of Gian Carlo Menotti

In 1984, he received a Kennedy Center Honor for Achievement in the Arts from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Gian Carlo Menotti's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He was the sixth of eight children born to Alfonso and Ines Menotti. His father was the owner of a coffee store.

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Gian Carlo Menotti Collabed with

He was a classmate of Composer Leonard Bernstein at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music.

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Gian Carlo Menotti Income & Net worth

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