Librettist Menotti Composer Gian Carlo Menotti | Written 1976 Language English | |
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Premiere June 1, 1976 (1976-06-01)
Philadelphia Academy of Music First performance Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Similar The Boy Who Grew Too Fast, La Loca, Maria Golovin, Help - Help - the Globolinks!, The Last Savage | ||
The Hero is a two-act opera by Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Commissioned by the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the work premiered at the Philadelphia Academy of Music on June 1, 1976. At this point of his career, Menotti's style of composition, which rejected the avant-garde, was out of favor with the classical music world. Time stated in its review of the opera, "Most of Menotti's music is passable Puccini: melodic, easy to take—and totally beside the point in 1976."
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