Difference between revisions of "The Medium"
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2015: Presented at the [[Suidoosterfees]] (29 April – 2 May) | 2015: Presented at the [[Suidoosterfees]] (29 April – 2 May) | ||
Revision as of 17:16, 26 February 2024
The Medium is a short two-act dramatic opera with words and music by Gian Carlo Menotti.
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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
1952: Presented on tour by the University of Cape Town Opera Company across the Western and Eastern Cape.
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 Unpublished PhD thesis.
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