COMPANY: Naxos
CATEGORY: CD

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Reissue Producer and Restoration Engineer: Mark Obert-Thorn

Hailed as ‘the best new opera since Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess’, Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Saint of Bleecker Street won the Pulitzer Prize for Music and the New York Drama Critics Circle award for Best Musical. Its underlying themes of immigrant life and religious fervour remain topical today. The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore is part masque, part ballet and part chamber music. It presents three stages in the life of an eccentric poet, symbolised by the allegorical animals of the title.

October 2011

Lurid slice of religiose Manhattan verismo, powerfully sung and played - with The Unicorn, a sly madrigalian fable, providing a delightful contrast.

May 2011

Gabrielle Ruggiero is a touching Annina...and the rest of the cast is strong...The Saint of Bleecker Street is not some sort of warmed-over Puccini: it's a work that draws the listener in seductively, and I'm absolutely delighted to have heard this original recording, well restored by Obert-Thorn.

Works
Menotti: The Saint of Bleecker Street
Menotti: The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore
Conductors
Schippers, Thomas

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