Gian Carlo Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 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.
He won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Consul (1950) and for The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955). He founded the noted Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) in Spoleto in 1958 and its American counterpart, Spoleto Festival USA, in 1977. In 1986 he commenced a Melbourne Spoleto Festival in Australia, but he withdrew after three years.
== Tossup Questions ==
# For the Hamburg State Opera, this composer created an opera about aliens that are allergic to music, Help, Help, the Globolinks! Another of his operas deals with the secret police tracking down the vigilante John Sorrel, while Annina, who can perform miracles, is the titular religious figure of another work. In addition to The Consul and The Saint of Bleeker Street, this man also composed the first opera for (*) televison which sees a little boy give his crutch to the Three Magi. For 10 points, name this Italian-American composer of Amahl and the Night Visitors.
# The title character of one opera by this man sings the aria "Be good to her, be kind" on the wedding day of Salvatore and Carmela. In another of his arias, a magician sings the aria "How did I do it?" while making a group of people waiting in line for visas think they are at a ball. One of his operas concerns the atheist Michele and his sister Annina, who displays the stigmata and hears voices. One character in another of his opera's is caught stealing by a page after singing the aria "All that (*) gold!" This composer of The Consul and The Saint of Bleecker Street wrote the libretto for Samuel Barber's Vanessa and had King Kaspar sing "This is my box" in his most famous opera. For 10 points, name this Italian who wrote about a crippled boy witnessing the nativity in Amahl and the Night Visitors.
# In one of his operas, Billy is selected to be the husband of the Queen of Pluto, and in another music scars of the titular aliens, and a third opera sees the protagonist marry a telephone addict by proposing over the telephone. However this composer of The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore and Help, Help, the Globolinks! is best known for showing a mother trying to steal gold from 3 of the title figures on their way to visit the birth of Jesus. For ten points, name this composer of the first opera for television, Amahl and the Night Visitors.