It was in 1950 that then director of NBC’s opera programming, Peter Herman Adler, commissioned composer Gian-Carlo Menotti (1911 – 2007)to compose the first ever opera for the American television audience. This was no easy task and it is one of the many credits due to the exceptional talent of Menotti that he made the […]
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