Today in History:
📆 March 15, 1950 Gian Carlo Menotti's #PulitzerPrize winning opera "The Consul" opens at Barrymore Theater, #NYC; runs for 269 performances

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William Shookhoff discusses political operas: Menotti’s The Consul from Opera By Request Opera by Request will be presenting Giancarlo Menotti’s The Consul, an opera premiered in 1950 during the Red Scare, a time with significant parallels to our own. I asked William (Bill) Shook…

Talking with the Artistic Director of Opera by Request about an upcoming show.

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