Gian Carlo Menotti - The Medium (Studio One, 1948)
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2012
- Director: Paul Nickell
Story (Music) by Gian Carlo Menotti
Original Air Date: 12 December 1948 (Season 1, Episode 3)
IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt0712518/
Downloaded from: archive.org/details/StudioOneT... 
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"Not to know my own daughter's voice? Could that be? Could that be?"
Menotti was brilliant as a dramatist as well as a composer.
As a child this opera terrified the hell out of me. Poor Toby :( I feel for him so badly. Poor Monica, Sun, Moon, and Stars.
Astonishing. Helt otrolig tolkning, tack för den här uppladdningen, jag är överväldigad. I can’t even describe it.😰💔
It's rare to see The Medium done well.
I saw an operatic production of that 18 months ago. I knew the ghost would eventually be gone but I realized the ghost would be killed off by 5 or 6 gunshots by Madame - and I did not know the name of the ghost that was exterminated was no other than Toby.
It is phenomenal that this exists at all in this form and with Marie Powers! It was her record from which I learned this music. I thank you for posting this.
Yes, of course. She created the role of the mother in Menotti's "The Consul," which won the Pulitzer for music and the New York Drama Critics Circle award for best musical in 1950. After that, it seems like alcoholism became a problem for her, unfortunately.
So fortunate to get to see this! Marie Powers was excellent and Leo Coleman was the perfect Toby.
"Was it you? WAS IT YOU?"
We'll never know, will we? An eerie, incredibly poignant piece, isn't it?
Who could write a sequel?
Every time I heard "mother, mother, are you there? I got chills. Painfully spooky.
This was 3 years before NBC aired the world premiere of Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors".
Thanks. The sound is pretty good for 1948. There is also a TV version from 1951 with Marie Powers and Anna Maria Alberghetti.
The 1951 movie features 13 year old Anna Maria Alberghetti as Monica. Menotti wrote an extra scene in which Monica and Toby go to a carnival.
Thank you so much for posting this.
Me sorprende gratamente que 1948 se haya realizado esta grabación, en realidad demuestra que cuando las cosas se hacen bien, son intemporales. Quizás a muchos de los realizadores de hoy en día, les convenga revisar, la historia de la dramaturgia y sus puesta en escena, porque la música es magia, la opera es fantasía, pero a veces ni toda la magia del mundo puede salvar del ridículo algunas puestas en escena.
The stage direction for Toby and Monica during the waltz is the best I've seen. Toby is astoundingly good. I've been thinking hard about the story. Monica uses her voice to give Toby a means of communication other than body language. I think the Medium actually did tap into a supernatural force unknowingly, and she brought out a bad one. of course it looks like her guilt was getting the best of her and that she was hallucinating, but I think otherwise
I saw a production of this at the Curtis Institute. During the waltz, Monica held Toby's wrists from behind and he used his own hands to caress his own face as if she were doing it. It was awesome.
The brief scene between Mrs. Nolan and her supposed daughter is heartbreaking. It's a shame they cut out a couple of lines from it: "The earth is light, the roots are sweet, but the tears of those we love are heavy and bitter rain."
It's right there at 15:39.
It's such a shame that this opera has become a cult favourite during the Halloween season! In fact, it has nothing to do with ghosts! It is an in depth study of alcoholism and racism. Like Benjamin Britten, Menotti who was also a homosexual was highly perceptive of sensitive social problems, and just like Britten addressed them in his operas. Toby would have been treated far better, were he not a Gypsy boy. And Baba would have not committed murder, were she not guided by her own hallucinations induced by her alcoholism. Menotti's mastery in musical characterizations will probably take a book to write about. This is indeed a masterpiece, and this performance, most likely will never be topped!
Alcoholics always treat the white mutes better than the gypsy mutes.
Interesting. I am probably one of those "Halloween Cult Classic" people you speak of (I'm pleasantly surprised to see I'm not alone. I know like...4 other people who have heard of this opera that weren't introduced to it by me haha), but I raise you....why not both? 😀
This is probably the most brilliant opera I know of. Thank you for posting this fantastic production!
If you like this type of dramatic chamber opera, may I recommend Britten's Turn of the Screw, also very good drama.
23:00 BLACK SWAN. Poignant!
Brava, Marie Powers!
I could literally go on and on. The eerie harmonies of the customers who refused their money back was amazing. The Black Swan. Wow. Monica was the voice for Toby, and M. Flora was the voice for a force she didn't understand, which then killed Toby.
I think this is the earliest surviving. It was not remade like some of the earlier ones. This was the only time. It is the third aired episode Dec 1948
Lois Nettleton I could SWEAR I remember hearing-seeing CLARAMAE TURNER as The Medium when I was a little boy. It had to have been on television c. 1950-52. This is very good, but I still get goose bumps thinking of the first time I experienced this strange, haunting, disquieting exploration of a seamy-but-extraorinarily-touching aspect of life.
@@hyramesshiramess1035I believe it was Ms. Turner who created the role of Baba, although Ms. Powers became the role's most well-known interpreter.
And this was before "Studio One" obtained a sponsor. No Westinghouse commercials (and no Betty Furness) in this early episode.
As seen on Sundays at 7:30pm(et).
The customers tried to communicate with a baby son and a teenage daughter -- M. Flora has a mute son and Monica, who is not her daughter, but a daughter figure. Flora pretends to speak for the deceased son and daughter while using the life forces of Monica and Toby. Monica sings a song about a dead lover in Black Swan, which foreshadows Toby's fate.
What a time that was for television. Now, the major networks wouldn't think of broadcasting an opera. And, you don't get one on PBS unless they have the tin cup out.
My Henry clay middle school music teacher made us watch this opera ms.shear I think that was her name lol
Wow! I was trying to find this film since I was also in Ms. Shear's music class in Henry Clay Middle school! Small world.
“Was it you?”
Leo Coleman is magnificent in every way.
Beyond beautiful and such an outstanding dancer. His movement especially toward Monica expresses how much he adores and loves her.
Why do they think we need 5 minutes to read the title? It’s two words!
They don't even do operas anymore when they have the tin cup out. They do "Celtic Woman."
Nice wrong note in the viola right in the second string phrase. Well, that's too bad...
John Basilone Gunnery Sergeant
I heckin love the opera but this recording is so hard to watch omfg
This opera passed as modern 'in the good old days' and worked well with teens, but now it is so old fashioned and silly that it's really moderately insufferable. Best to keep this stuff on any campus and out of any opera house. Such crap!
I fart in your general direction!!
What is really "insufferable" is your malicious lack of appreciation of a 1948 live production at a time when most people did not have televisions. Very often history "in the good old days" repeats itself with modern modifications & I find no reason why this piece could not also can come back with a new vision.
I'm performing this opera with my university tonight 😁 I'll make sure to send you a live stream link 🙄
No wonder we get "This Site Has No Content" at this woman's stite. There's no one in there.