The Consul was composed by Gian Carlo Menotti and made its debut on March 1, 1950, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It would go on to win the New York Drama Critic Circle award as the Best Musical Play ...

The emotional high point of the opera comes when Magda, thwarted in her quest for a visa, addresses the Consul’s indifferent secretary in “To this we’ve come,” a lament over the world’s inhumanity to ...

Opera and musicals do the same thing: tell stories through music. So Houston Grand Opera and other companies think staging "Showboat" and other venerable shows alongside "Don Giovanni" and "Aida" fits ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The University of South Carolina Opera announces it will present “The Consul.” “The Consul” is a musical drama by Spoleto Festival founder and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer ...

The Consul tells a timely story about bureaucracy and immigration during turbulent times. Gian Carlo Menotti was himself an Italian immigrant to the United States, and wrote the opera as a response to ...

3 Review: LA FILLE DU REGIMENT, Royal Ballet And Opera UCO presents the moving, dramatic opera The Consul. The Consul ran on Broadway in 1950, and tells a story that is relevant even today. Written by ...

Don’t expect to be uplifted by Glimmerglass Opera’s brilliant production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Consul,” which opened Saturday night at the Alice Busch Opera Theater. The drama, set in some ...

There is much about Carlos Menotti's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1950 opera "The Consul" that rings true today. It is the story of a dissident scientist persecuted by the totalitarian government in his ...

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