Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menottiwas an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors, along with over two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth7 July 1911
CountryItaly
love inspiring flower
Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners of a house. For it was that same Love which planted a glorious garden redolent with precious herbs and noble flowers-roses and lilies-which breathed forth a wondrous fragrance, that garden on which the true Solomon was accustomed to feast his eyes.
love charity born
Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.
opera composer feels
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
love heart space
I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.
remembrance quality ears
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
dream waiting destroyed
Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
accountability vision done
Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
heart long gone
Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.
beauty art flower
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
wise wisdom ignorance
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.