The Black Swan is an aria from the opera The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti. The work is arguably Menotti's most famous serious opera and it opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Broadway in 1947.

Commissioned by the BBC Singers for mixed voices a cappella. It is a mocking self-deprecatory portrait written in 1981. In this piece a distraught composer moans as he sits in front of a blank page with an empty head. A flybuzzes around and he calls out to his neighbors and his dog for comfort. Gian-Carlo Menotti's piece effectively conveyed the feeling you get when doing something extremely difficult like writing a law school application essay or trying to compose the perfect piece of music.

From Amahl and the Night Visitors-Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7 1911 February 1 2007) was an Italian-born American composer and librettist who wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal topopular taste.

Italian-American composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti composed his first opera in English, The Old Maid and the Thief, in 1939. It was commissioned by NBC as a radio opera (to be performed on air) and was premiered by the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Years later, Menotti adapted a theme from the opera's third scene, transforming and expanding it into an advanced two-movement work for solo piano. The first movement is a lyrical and emotive ricercare, which contains contrapuntal writing, elaborate flourishes, and flamboyant improvisatory gestures. By contrast, the second-movement toccata unfolds in steady, 16th-note perpetual motion with moments of musical humor combined with brilliant pianistic display. The concise work, approximately seven minutes in length, is often used in competitions and recitals. This edition contains helpful fingering and pedaling suggestions, as well as a discussion of form and a brief synopsis of the original opera. / Piano

Vanessa is an American opera in three acts by Samuel Barber with an original English libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti. It was composed in 1956 1957 and was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 15 1958.This paperback Vocal Score of the revised edition is arranged for Soprano (Vanessa) Mezzo-Soprano (Erika) Contralto (The Old Baroness) Tenor (Anatol) Baritone (The Old Doctor) and Bass (Nicholas; The Footman) Voices. Highlights from the score include the Soprano scena and aria He has come he has come!...Do Not Utter a Word the Mezzo aria Must the Winter Come So Soon? and thelast act quintet To Leave to Break.Samuel Barber was an American composer of orchestral opera choral and Piano music. He is one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century.

50 Songs by 29 Composers-This comprehensive collection is the best one-volume source available on the topic with a mix of familiar recital standards and intriguing material awaiting discovery. Includes composers from c. 1900 into the 21st century. Somesongs make their first published appearance in American Art Song: Gian Carlo Menotti's moving “The Old Man's Song ” Michael Tilson Thomas' inspired “Grace ” dedicated to Leonard Bernstein and AaronJay Kernis' “A Good Boy ” as well a boogie-woogie art song by the editor “Blue Monday.” The same songs appear in High Voice and Medium/Low Voice.

Cette série historique, la première anthologie de aria multi-volume consacré entièrement au sujet, recueille convaincants, utiles, extraits chanteur-friendly du meilleur de la tradition musicale typiquement américain. Notes des parcelles et des informations de base sur chaque opéra sont inclus. Compositeurs d'opéras tels que Samuel Barber, William Bolcom, Douglas Moore, Virgil Thomson et Kurt Weill sont représentés. Les opéras de Gian Carlo Menotti sont particulièrement présentes, avec 26 airs d'opéras neuf dans la série. En outre, attrayant, arias exécutables sont inclus des oeuvres importantes comme Regina, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Ghosts of Versailles, The Great Gatsby, et Little Women. Stephen Sondheim a gentiment accepté de faire de nouvelles éditions de aria de deux morceaux de Sweeney Todd ('Le Concours' dans le volume de ténor et 'Epiphany' dans le volume de baryton / basse) pour cette série. Une majorité de la musique dans les quatre volumes n'a jamais été disponible en dehors des partitions vocales, un nombre important des airs ont été spécialement adaptés à cette édition. Quelques airs de la série n'ont jamais été imprimée à tous avant aujourd'hui. De nombreux airs sont appropriés pour les chanteurs d'étudiants de niveau collégial. / Tenor

Lee Hoiby continues the neo-Classical tradition of Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti (under whom he studied) by writing in an almost Romantic style forging an idiom that is both melodic and accessible. These Songs arefrequently performed and well-liked for their fresh interpretation of the Romantic song idiom.

This landmark series collects compelling, useful, singer-friendly arias from a distinctly American opera tradition. Each volume includes information about every opera and an aria plot note. A majority of the music in the four volumes has never before been available outside of the opera vocal scores, and some arias in the series have never been in print at all before now. Most arias are appropriate for college-level singers. Composers such as Samuel Barber, William Bolcom, Douglas Moore, Virgil Thomson and Gian Carlo Menotti are well represented. Additionally, arias are included from important works such as Regina, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Ghosts of Versailles, The Great Gatsby, Little Women and many others. Stephen Sondheim graciously agreed to adapt new aria editions of two pieces from Sweeney Todd for the series: ?The Contest? in the Tenor volume and ?Epiphany? in the Baritone/Bass edition./ Recueil / Soprano et Piano