* Italian — Menotti, Gian Carlo: The Death of Pierrot ( 1923 ; written by Menotti, including libretto, when he was age 11, in the same year he entered the Milan Conservatory for formal training ).

Menotti was executed, and the idea of a revolution centered in Modena faded.

Ciro Menotti was to take the reins of the initiative, trying to find the support of Duke Francis IV of Modena, who pretended to respond positively in return for granting the title of King of Italy: but the Duke made the double play and Menotti, remained virtually unarmed, was arrested the day before the date fixed for the uprising.

The American composer Gian Carlo Menotti composed a ballet score for a Ballets Russes production which was first given in 1944.

Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano ( 28 August 1867 – 12 November 1948 ) was an Italian composer, mainly of operas.

Because Spoleto was a small town, where real estate and other goods and services were at the time relatively inexpensive, and also because there are two indoor theatres, a Roman theatre and many other spaces, it was chosen by Gian-Carlo Menotti as the venue for an arts festival.

The twinning only lasted some 15 years and, after growing disputes between the Menotti family and the Spoleto Festival USA board, in the early ' 90s a separation was consummated.

Gian Carlo Menotti () ( July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007 ) was an Italian-American composer and librettist.

Born in Cadegliano-Viconago, Italy, near Lake Maggiore and the Swiss border, Menotti was the sixth of eight children of Alfonso and Ines Menotti, his father being a coffee merchant.

Menotti began writing songs when he was seven years old, and at eleven wrote both the libretto and music for his first opera, The Death of Pierrot.

It was founded in 1977 by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Gian Carlo Menotti, who sought to establish a counterpart to the Festival dei Due Mondi ( the Festival of Two Worlds ) in Spoleto, Italy.

Subsequently, together with the Italian Socialist delegates ( Oddino Morgari, Giacinto Menotti Serrati, and Angelica Balabanoff among them ), Rakovsky was instrumental in convening the anti-war international socialist Zimmerwald Conference in September 1915.

11, composed in 1936 while he was spending a summer in Europe with his partner Gian Carlo Menotti, an Italian composer who was a fellow student at the Curtis Institute of Music.

Toscanini then sent word through Menotti that he was planning to perform the piece and had returned it simply because he had already memorized it.

It was composed in 1956 – 1957 and was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 15, 1958 under the baton of Dimitri Mitropoulos in a production designed by Cecil Beaton and directed by Menotti.

Vanessa is an opera in three ( originally four ) acts by Samuel Barber with an original English libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti.

In many print media it says that the libretto of Gian-Carlo Menotti is based on a work of Isak Dinesen ( pen name for Karen Blixen ), described variously as a " short story " or " novella ".

Menotti writes in the libretto " The devil couldn't do what a woman can-Make a thief out of an honest man.

Menotti wrote the libretto to The Old Maid and the Thief himself ; initially in Italian but with the intention of having the work translated into English for its premiere.

Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti with an original English libretto by the composer.

Composed by Gian-Carlo Menotti with a libretto in English by the composer, the opera told of a disabled beggar boy living with his ( presumably ) widowed mother in the Holy Land.

A Hand of Bridge, opus 35, is an opera composed by Samuel Barber with libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, is possibly the shortest opera that is regularly performed-it lasts about ten minutes.

** David Zinman ( conductor ), Dawn Upshaw & the Orchestra of St. Luke's for Knoxville-Summer of 1915 ( Music of Barber, Menotti, Harbison, Stravinsky )

** David Zinman ( conductor ), Dawn Upshaw & the Orchestra of St. Luke's for Knoxville-Summer of 1915 ( Music of Barber, Menotti, Harbison, Stravinsky )

The atrocities of the Ducal policies are illustrated in the book Ciro Menotti e i suoi compagni written by the Garibaldine officer Taddeo Gaddi in 1880, in particular the hanging of Menotti for an attempted insurrection against the Duke ( 1831 ).

After Veira's depparture, River appointed Carlos Timoteo Griguol for the 87 / 88 season, and César Menotti for the 1988 / 89 season as coaches.

On July 21, 1878, a noisy public meeting was held at Rome with Menotti Garibaldi, the son of Giuseppe Garibaldi, as chairman of the forum, and a clamour was raised for the formation of volunteer battalions to conquer the Trentino.

* Dawn Upshaw, artist for Knoxville: Summer of 1915 ( Music of Barber, Menotti, Harbison, Stravinsky )

During the Expedition of the Thousand under Giuseppe Garibaldi, the town contributed with a whole corps, and housed for a night Garibaldi's son Menotti and his general Nino Bixio.

The series debuted on 24 December 1951 on NBC with the first opera written specifically for television, Amahl and the Night Visitors, by Gian Carlo Menotti, starring Chet Allen.

Menotti was commissioned by Peter Herman Adler, director of NBC's new opera programming, to write the first opera for television.

Menotti wrote Amahl with the stage in mind, even though it was intended for broadcast.

* The Festival dei Due Mondi is founded by Gian Carlo Menotti.

There is evidence of Samuel Barber's having read Blixen's Seven Gothic Tales, and the mistaking of the proper source may have come from a proclamation by Menotti and Barber, that the opera reproduced the " atmosphere " of Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales.

He retired as a violinist in 1949, but returned in 1952 to give the first performance of the Violin Concerto by Gian Carlo Menotti, which is dedicated to him.

The Medium is a short ( one hour long ) two-act dramatic opera with words and music by Gian Carlo Menotti.

The Old Maid and the Thief is an opera in one act by Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti.

After the dress rehearsal, NBC Symphony conductor Arturo Toscanini told Menotti, " This is the best you've ever done.

In a popular sketch on TV, comedian Mario Sapag as Menotti would say that Pernía does not fit in his philosophy of play " because he is sad ", and he'd rather have Olguín, whose name itself is funny.

Maria Golovin is an English language opera in three acts by Gian Carlo Menotti.

Golden Star, brewed by the Golden Star Brewery, is the unique beer in Eritrea after the closing of Asmara Brewery ( ex Menotti ) which has been brewing beer since the colonial era.