Surprising as well is the inclusion of two of Gian Carlo Menotti's Canti della Lontananza, which were composed in 1967 as a commission from Schwarzkopf herself.

SARASOTA OPERA: VANESSA Kara Shay Thomson, who wowed audiences here as Tosca a few seasons ago, sings the role of a deluded woman awaiting the return of an old lover in this Samuel Barber opera with libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti. PERFORMANCES MARCH 10,13,15, 18, 21 AND 24 AT THE SARASOTA OPERA HOUSE.

At the invitation of founder Gian Carlo Menotti, Barto, along with his first wife, attended the Spoleto Festival in Italy,.

Gian Carlo Menotti died February 1, 2007, at age 95, in Monaco.

Beresford's career as an opera director grew out of a chance meeting with Gian Carlo Menotti, founder of Italy's Festival dei Due Mondi and its American offshoot, Spoleto Festival USA.

Spoleto Festival USA founder Gian Carlo Menotti died in February.

Gian Carlo Menotti, who composed a pair of Pulitzer Prize-winning operas and founded the Spoleto arts festivals in Italy and the United States, died February 1 at a hospital in Monaco.

OPERA legend Gian Carlo Menotti is to be laid to rest at his country house in Scotland, his family announced yesterday.

The libretto was by his long term companion, the composer Gian Carlo Menotti, recalling a similar relationship between Verdi and Boito, who turned away from composition to supply Verdi with librettos.

One critic actually dubbed Little Women "the new Amahl," likening it to Gian Carlo Menotti's classic Amahl and the Night Visitors.

Gian Carlo Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball (1937) was his first big hit, and it still retains its youthful insouciance.

Remember that the bridgehead of this Yankee invasion was London, although a few companies also appeared at Gian Carlo Menotti's marvelous and aptly named Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy.

Other memorable projects included Ann Hamilton's investigation of the power of indigo, Christian Boltanski's bleak inventory of the personal effects of an anonymous Charleston woman, and James Coleman's eerie homage to southern Civil War "re-enacters." Worth noting is the closed-minded fury with which composer Gian Carlo Menotti, artistic director of Spoleto, denounced Jacob's exhibition after it opened, ensuring that, at least in this case, history would not repeat itself.

This was the centre of Gian Carlo Menotti's newly formed Spoleto festival, the literature and film of Pier Paulo Pasolini, and the neo-realist cinema of Luchino Visconti and Federico Fellini.