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Jul 07, 1911 Cadegliano Viconago, Lombardy, Italy Died on 01 Feb 2007 (aged 95)
Composer and librettist
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About Gian Carlo Menotti
- Gian Carlo Menotti (, Italian: [d?a? 'karlo me'n?tti]; July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist.
- Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship.
- He wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors, along with over two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. He won a Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Consul (1950) and for The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955).
- He founded the noted Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) in Spoleto in 1958 and its American counterpart, Spoleto Festival USA, in 1977.
- In 1986 he commenced a Melbourne Spoleto Festival in Australia, but he withdrew after three years. Menotti died on February 1, 2007, at the age of 95 in a hospital in Monte Carlo, Monaco, where he had a home.
- He was buried in East Lothian, Scotland.
