FULL THE TELEPHONE (Menotti) Bodø 2021 Mathilde Salmi Marjavara, Aleksander Nohr

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: The Telephone  
• Composer: Menotti Gian Carlo  
• Libretto: Gian Carlo Menotti    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Bodø, Norway  
• Recorded: February 2, 2021
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Mathilde Salmi Marjavara, Aleksander Nohr
• Conductor: Christian Kluxen  
• Orchestra: Yegor Shevtsov, PIANO  
• Stage Director: Jostein Kirkeby-Garstad  
• Stage Designer: Gjermund Andresen  
• Costume Designer: Gjermund Andresen  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Arctic Philharmonic  
• Date Published: 2021  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

The Telephone, or L’Amour à trois 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.

Synopsis
Ben, bearing a gift, comes to visit Lucy at her apartment; he wants to propose to her before he leaves on a trip. Despite his attempts to get her attention for sufficient time to ask his question, Lucy is occupied with interminable conversations on the telephone. Between her calls, when Lucy leaves the room, Ben even takes the risk of trying to cut the telephone cord, though his attempt is unsuccessful. Not wanting to miss his train, Ben leaves without asking Lucy for her hand in marriage. But Ben makes one last attempt: He calls Lucy from a telephone booth outside on the street and makes his proposal. She consents, and the two join in a romantic duet over the phone line, at the end of which Lucy makes sure that Ben remembers her phone number.

Quoted from Wikipedia