Maria Golovin
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Maria Golovin is an English language opera in three acts by Gian Carlo Menotti. It is through-composed and centers on a romantic encounter between a blind recluse named Donato and the title character, a married woman living in a European country a few years after a recent war.
Its first performance was at the International Exposition Pavilion Theater at Expo '58 in Brussels in 1958. Later that year, David Merrick and the NBC Opera mounted a Broadway production billed as a "musical drama." It was staged by Menotti and ran for five performances at the Martin Beck Theatre. The cast included Patricia Neway, Ruth Kobart, and Richard Cross, who won the 1959 Theatre World Award for his performance.
Time described it as "something of a disappointment" and added, "the impact is marred by banalities of speech . . . and the hero's unsympathetic character." Of the music it said, "At its worst, the Golovin score is not only too sweet but too facile . . . At its best, the score is hauntingly tender and compelling."
A cast album was released by RCA Victor.
Maria Golovin is not part of the standard operatic repertory and rarely is performed today.
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