{
  "title": "THE MEDIUM",
  "category": "[OPERA]",
  "article": "Menotti’s opera about a fake medium and her fear that she may have conjured up something\nactually supernatural…\n[Owosso Argus-Press, August 7, 1947—“Music Notebook” by Al Haynes] “The radio premiere of\nGian-Carlo Menotti’s opera, ‘The Medium,’ together with the short opera, ‘The Telephone,’ are on\nthe CBS Symphony program…with Alfredo Antonini conducting. The original Broadway cast will\nsing ‘The Medium’…\n“‘The Medium’ is remarkable in that one of the characters is a deaf-mute. The opera, as\nfascinated audiences have discovered at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre since last April, is a horror\nstory about a fake medium, Madame Flora, who during the course of a phony séance, suddenly\nfeels the touch of a cold hand on her throat. Unable to discover from her daughter, Monica, or\nfrom the mute Toby, her adopted son, whether it is a prank or really the hand of the dead, she\nbecomes horribly afraid, her imagination playing havoc with her sanity. She finally kills someone\nwho is hiding behind a curtain—it turns out to be Toby—and shrieks ‘I’ve killed the ghost, I’ve\nkilled the ghost.’\n“A great deal of painstaking work is going into the business of making Toby a character of\nsubstance to the listening audience. There have been other problems, too, in transforming a work\nconceived as visual theatre, into intelligible radio music-drama. The performance this Sunday will\nbe of great interest to every lover of serious music.”\nTHE CBS SYMPHONY (WABC, NEW YORK—CBS)\n[Sunday—2:00-3:30 PM]\nAugust 10, 1947\n“The Telephone” / “The Medium”",
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  "duration": "",
  "personnel": "",
  "extant_recordings": "",
  "chronology": "",
  "sources": "",
  "gallery": "",
  "images": []
}