Menotti's 'The Medium' Is Full of Creepy Delights
A spooky operatic treat, just in time for Halloween, “The Medium” is a highly accessible chamber opera guaranteed to excite anyone with a bent for musicalized melodrama. With both music and libretto by the Italian-born American composer Gian Carlo Menotti, the work tells the tale of Madame Flora, a charlatan spiritualist who conducts phony séances in her parlor. Assisted by her daughter and a deaf-…