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Revision as of 16:35, 20 February 2024

The Medium is a short two-act dramatic opera with words and music by Gian Carlo Menotti.

The original text

Commissioned by the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University, its first performance was there on 8 May 1946.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

2015: Presented at the Suidoosterfees (29 April – 2 May)

Sources

Wayne Muller. 2018. A reception history of opera in Cape Town: Tracing the development of a distinctly South African operatic aesthetic (1985–2015). Unpublished PhD thesis.

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