Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1946 — Page 11

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‘By ROBERT RICHARDS United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 10.—Dark-eyed Gian-Carlo Menotti cracked traditional opera in the ribs today. He said!that Americans ought to do something fast to pep it up. Manhattan critics were still singing the praises of His new chamber

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produced Wedhesday night at the Brander Matthews hall, but Mr, Menotti said rather sadly, “Wait until they see my new one to be called “The Last Superman.” Mr. Menotti, who came to the United States from Italy in 1034, will write the superman opus on a! Guggenheim fellowship, and’ he means to blaze new trails for opera that might make Verdi or Wagner swallow their tongues, if they gazed down from the Met's diamond horseshoe. “It’s high time that opera, keeping pace with other art forms, grew up and took its place in a modern world,” Mr. Menotti explained. “We are still staging Rigoletto, even at the Met, just the way it was staged the first time that it was performed.”

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English - comes out in the singing with a slight Italian accent. “I say to her, ‘Why is this, please?’ “She says to me, ‘But I can't help it. That's the way I am taught. “So I say, ‘Hell, I was never in Kansas, but I can pronounce the

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His lat¥st opera “The Medium” is built around a mute, It hds a love song duet sung only by one person. ple “It's a duet fust the same,” Mr. Menotti, said. “The mute contrib utes by making motions with his hatids.” In “The Last Superman,” Mr. Menotti will tell the sad story of a poor native " India who is trapped by an American cafe society gal. This lady thinks that the native is a superman and she brings him back to the local bistros for all the babes to see. “Alas, it happens all the time,” Menotti said, with a sigh. “They may not be Indians, but you see these poor boys led by their women in every night club.” In fact, he thinks it's impossible

and not slip into such pitfalls. “Even’ 1,” he said. “Yes, I see it coming.” But before the gals pull him down, he's going to get at least one more opera, off his chest, And he hopes that it'll shake the

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