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Gian-Carlo Menotti: The Saint Of Bleecker Street (Vocal Score)

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Media: Sheet Music
Language: English
Arrangement: Opera (OPERA)
Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced - Explain this
Composer: Gian Carlo Menotti
Publisher: G. Schirmer

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The Saint of Bleecker Street is a full-length, serious work. Unlike several of Menotti's earlier dramas, The Saint of Bleecker Street is more characteristic of a traditional opera. The Saint of Bleecker Street received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play, the Music Critics Circle Award for best opera, and the Pulitzer Prize in music in 1955.


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Sales Rank:
46256
Published on:
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Format:
Vocal Score
Length:
308 pages
Language:
English
Catalogue #:
GS33791
ISBN:
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Customer Rating THE SAINT OF BLEECKER STREET is, to me, the ultimate 20th century American opera, even though Menotti was born in Italy. The vocal score is probably one of the best I've run into; the print for the English (and German translation) lyrics is large enough to read, and the score is complete. When I mention the completeness, I am referring to the 'Jukebox Music' that opens Act Two. Only once have I heard this in performance (at New York University in the late 1980s); apparently, Menotti cut it and permission must be specifically obtained from Menotti's estate to include it in a production. Even though the current Chandos recording has the complete scene, those who own the original 1954 recording will be pleased to know that the score also includes the beginning of Act Three's Subway Scene (which had to be cut because of the LP timings of the day). SAINT's first performances played on Broadway (Menotti won a Pulitzer Prize for it); the vocal score is a must for any serious student of either romantic composition or accessable, singable modern opera.
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