Directing · Writer · Lyricist · Music
Active 1951–present · Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, Peabody Awards, Pulitzer Prize for Music, Kennedy Center Honors, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, George Peabody Medal, Donaldson Awards
Gian Carlo Menotti was born on July 7, 1911 in Cadegliano-Viconago, Lombardy, Italy. He was a writer and composer, known for The Medium (1951), Great Performances (1971) and NBC Television Opera Theatre (1949).