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The Telephone poster

Menotti's comic one-act opera

Dates
Tuesday 20 June 2023
Wednesday 21 June 2023
Thursday 22 June 2023
6:00 pm

Teatro José Rubén Romero
Calle de Santiago Tapia S/N
Centro Histórico
58000 Morelia, Mich.

The Telephone is an English-language comic opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti, both words and music. It was written for production by the Ballet Society and was first presented on a double bill with Menotti's The Medium at the Heckscher Theater, New York City, February 18–20, 1947.

The Broadway production took place on May 1, 1947, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Metropolitan Opera Company presented it once, at the Lewisohn Stadium, on July 31, 1965.

 

Conductor Violetta Zabbi
Stage Director Raquel Winnica Young