Gian Carlo Menotti (1911–2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors, along with over two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste.
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Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we might have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
—Gian Carlo Menotti
Topics: Vision, Achievement
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
—Gian Carlo Menotti
Topics: Wisdom
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