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Gian Carlo Menotti, born July 7, 1911, in Cadegliano, (Varese) Italy, wrote and produced his first opera when he was eleven. Following preliminary studies at Milan's Verdi Conservatory, he went to the United States on the advice of Arturo Toscanini and completed his compositional studies under Rosario Scalero at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music.

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His first mature work, the one-act opera buffa Amelia Goes to the Ball, was given its premiere by the Metropolitan Opera in 1938.

Commissioned to write a chamber opera for Columbia University in 1946, he produced The Medium. Coupled with the comic curtain-raiser The Telephone, The Medium was taken up the next season by Ballet Society, and on May 1, 1947, the double bill began an unprecedented six-month Broadway run at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, establishing the composer as an international celebrity and launching American Opera on a new and exciting course.

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