Carlo Menotti

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...

Menotti is best known for his operas, but he has written some wonderful chamber music, among which this piece deserves special notice. It was composed for and has been recorded by the Verdehr Trio as...

A Grotesque Opera in 14 scenes.

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...

English Only - Cloth Score.

Menotti, Gian Carlo (1911 -)

The Telephone' is a one-act 20-minute opera buffa for two singers. The story is that Lucy spends most of her time on the telephone, and when Ben, her boyfriend, visits her intending to propose, the te...

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 ai...

Amahl and the Night Visitors was the first opera to be commissioned especially for television and was premiered in 1951. With this well-crafted setting by Lloyd Conley, string orchestras can enjoy the...

Amahl and the Night Visitors was the first opera to be commissioned especially for television and was premiered in 1951. With this well-crafted setting by Lloyd Conley, string orchestras can enjoy the...

Amahl and the Night Visitors was the first opera to be commissioned especially for television and was premiered in 1951. With this well-crafted setting by Lloyd Conley, string orchestras can enjoy the...

SSAATTBB a cappella.

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...

English Only.

Written in 1983, with texts in English by the composer. The music is charged with emotion and a spinning, lyric line. This is Menotti's best recital work to date. Contents: The Eternal Prisoner / The...

The Last Savage is an opera in three acts. Menotti wrote his own libretto, originally in the Italian language (L'ultimo selvaggio), and the work's 1963 world-premiere performance was in Paris. George...

1997 edition with both French and English text.

Song cycle in Italian. Contents: Dorme pegaso / Gli amanti impossibili / Il settimo bicchiere / La lettera / Lo spettro / Mattinata di neve / Rassegnazione.

This dramatic one-movement tour-de-force from the 1970s - now available with the composer's piano reduction - is edited by renowned cellist Carter Brey, who has performed it many times.