Dead Menotti Don’t Write Scales

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Gian Carlo Finito
(Props to Kirsti)
Gian Carlo Menotti, the most popular opera composer of the 20th century, has screwed the Puccini at the age of 95. Menotti was largely credited with opera’s surging popularity of the 1950s and 1960s when all three networks showed opera with no commercial interruptions two or three nights a week, giving a libretto-loving nation all the arias it could Handel. Richard Wagner was even named Time’s man of the year in 1956 despite having been dead for 73 years. At the time of his death, Walt Disney was reportedly filming new cartoons starring Mickey’s cousin, Fleder Mouse. Menotti wrote his first opera before he was 11 and won two Pulitzer Prizes. He was best known for a 1951 televised opera that is the most performed opera in the world, so if you’re wondering which of his works you are most familiar with, if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen Amahl and the Night Visitors.

Following on the heels of our second 6-hit month ever (July 2005 was the other), we start off the littlest month right where we left off: with two Pooligans expecting the fat lady to sing to Menotti, with Nancy Van Brundt forging a three-way tie at 4th, while Craig Barker’s The Killers Greatest Hits joins two friends at 12th.

The revised leaderboard:
1st Mark - Beltway Boneyard IV: Foreign Exchange 3 hits, 14.395604398 points
2nd Monty - The U.N. Dead 2 hits, 30 points
3rd Greg - Team Quincy 2 hits, 21.53846154 points
4th Shawn - Team One – Oldest 2 hits, 11.53846154 points
(tie) Dawn - Go for the light, it's right there damn it 2 hits, 11.53846154 points
(tie) Nancy 2 hits, 11.53846154 points