…His debut work, “Amelia Goes to the Ball,” written at the age of 23, is an Italian-style opera buffa, but since his radio opera “The Thief and the Old Maid,” written for NBC in 1939, he has written his own librettos in English and set opera in modern-day America, which has made opera more accessible to the masses. After World War II, he achieved rare success as an opera composer with “The Medium” (1946), which depicts the fictionalities of modern society; “The Telephone” (1947), a comical piece about telephones; “The Consul” (1950), which deals with the plight of refugees in a totalitarian regime; and the television opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors” (1951). “Amahl and the Night Visitors” is always performed and broadcast at Christmas, making him the opera composer whose works are most frequently performed in America. … *Some of the terminology used in "Amahl and the Night Visitors" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…23歳のときに書いた処女作《アメリア舞踏会へ行く》はイタリア的なオペラ・ブッファであるが,39年にNBC放送のために書いたラジオ・オペラ《泥棒とオールドミス》以来自ら英語で台本を執筆し,舞台を現代のアメリカにとることによって,オペラを大衆に近づけることに成功した。第2次大戦後,現代社会の虚構をついた《霊媒》(1946),電話をめぐるコミカルな《電話》(1947),全体主義体制における亡命者の苦境を扱った《領事》(1950),テレビ・オペラ《アマールと夜の訪問者Amahl and the Night Visitors》(1951)などによって,オペラ作曲家としてまれにみる成功を収めた。《アマールと夜の訪問者》はクリスマスに必ず上演・放映されるほどで,アメリカでは最も数多く作品の上演されるオペラ作曲家である。… ※「《Amahl and the Night Visitors》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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