The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore
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The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore
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The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore or The Three Sundays of a Poet is a "madrigal fable" for chorus, ten dancers and nine instruments with music and original libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti. Based on the 16th-century Italian madrigal comedy genre, it consists of a prologue and 12 madrigals which tell a continuous story, interspersed with six instrumental interludes. The unicorn, gorgon, and manticore in the title are allegories for three stages in the life of the story's protagonist, a stra
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1956 opera by Gian Carlo Menotti
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unicorn,_the_Gorgon,_and_the_Manticore
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2024-04-27T06:12:07Z
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