Gian Carlo Menotti on Screen: Opera, Dance, and Choral Works on Film, Television, and Video [Library Binding]

Ken Wlaschin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1999

Born in 1911 (and still working), Gian Carlo Menotti created the first television opera (Amahl and the Night Visitors), made opera successful on Broadway while winning two Pultizer Prizes (The Consul and The Saint of Bleecker Street), and founded the Spoleto Festivals in Italy and the United States. Menotti has had a magnificent career: 21 of his operas and stage works have been filmed, taped or telecast. Each chapter of this reference work covers one opera or stage work and includes a history of the work, a description of its primary screen adaptation, and a chronological listing of screen and audio versions with cast and credits. Additional chapters are devoted to Menotti's screen biographies and screen collaborators, the Spoleto Festivals, and his unfilmed operas. An annotated bibliography completes the guide.

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The American Film Institute's Ken Wlaschin, currently its director of creative affairs, headed the Institute's National Film Theater and founded its Los Angeles film festival. He previously directed the British Film Institute's National Film Theater and London film festival for fourteen years. Wlaschin lives in Los Angeles.

Product Details

• Library Binding: 192 pages
• Publisher: McFarland & Company (August 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786406089
• ISBN-13: 978-0786406081
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,292,463 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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