Gian Carlo Menotti

: None | Death of Father 1928 (Dad died, life changed) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 20 February 1942 (Premier of "The Island God") | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 24 December 1951 (Debut of Amahl and the Night Visitors) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 26 January 1958 (Wrote "Vanessa") | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 7 March 1971 (Premier of "The Most Important Man") | Family : None | Adopted a child 1974 (Adopted his lover as a son) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 28 April 1991 (Cantata at the Kennedy Center) | : None | Death, Cause unspecified 1 February 2007 (Age 95 in Monaco) | Traits : Mind | Child prodigy (Wrote first opera at 11) | Traits : Personality | Mystical | Family : Childhood | Advantaged (Well-to-do family) | Family : Childhood | Family large (Eight kids) | Family : Childhood | Order of birth (Sixth of eight) | Family : Relationship | Mate - Same sex | Family : Parenting | Foster, Step, or Adopted Kids (Adopted adult actor) | Lifestyle : Financial | Gain - Financial success in field | Lifestyle : Home | Expatriate (Italy and U.S.) | Lifestyle : Home | Neighborhood (16th century mansion in Scotland) | Passions : Sexuality | Homosexual male | Personal : Death | Long life more than 80 yrs (95 years old) | Vocation : Entertain/Music | Composer/ Arranger | Vocation : Entertain/Music | Conductor | Vocation : Entertain/Music | Vocalist/Opera | Vocation : Writers | Metaphysics/ Parapsychology | Notable : Awards | Pulitzer prize (1950-1955) | Notable : Famous | Top 5% of Profession | Notable : Book Collection | Culture Collection