Menotti

[ muh-not-ee; Italian me-nawt-tee ]

noun

1. Gian Car·lo [jahn , kahr, -loh, jahn , kahr, -law], 1911–2007, U.S. composer, born in Italy.

Menotti

/ məˈnɒtɪ; meˈnɔtti /

noun

1. MenottiGian Carlo19112007MItalianMUSIC: composer Gian Carlo (dʒan ˈkarlo). 1911–2007, Italian composer, in the US from 1928. His works include the operas The Medium (1946), The Consul (1950), Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951), and Giorno di Nozze (1988)

Example Sentences

“Goodbye, dear Flaco!” the association’s statement added, using Menotti’s nickname which means “the thin one.”

From Seattle Times

Menotti talked a lot about entertaining the crowd and playing good football, about the romantic side of the game.

From BBC

This is the story of the man who has followed in the footsteps of Cesar Menotti and Carlos Bilardo, by bringing the World Cup home to Argentina.

From BBC

On Site Opera, a company that presents operas in nontraditional venues, will perform Gian Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors” with a chorus of formerly homeless people, Dec. 8-10, in a Manhattan soup kitchen.

From New York Times

At the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he spent a year studying with Gian Carlo Menotti, at the time America’s most popular opera composer.

From Washington Post