Word: decca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the year's best "musical" (opera was still considered too strong a word for Broadway; The Consul was billed as a "musical drama"). Decca Records was recording it with the original cast, and Hollywood was shouting offers, none of which seemed to be of much interest to 38-year-old Composer Menotti. What pleased him considerably more was that Milan's La Scala, which snooted his first five operas, had asked permission to produce The Consul in Italian late this year. Menotti felt hopeful that his acceptance...