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For its second production of the 2015-16 season, Opera in the Heights (Oh) is focusing on 20th-century American opera with two shorter works by Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner best-known for his opera Amahl and the Night Visitors.
Menotti was commissioned to write The Medium by Columbia University and it debuted there in 1946. The following year it began a run on Broadway and, because of its length (it comes in at around one hour), Menotti wrote a short opera to flesh out the evening. This was The Telephone.
Oh's final performance is tomorrow evening, November 7th, at 7:30 p.m.
Music director Eiki Isomura and stage director Lynda Keith McKnight talk with Houston Public Media's St.John Flynn about the Menotti double-bill.