The Saint of Bleecker Street
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The Saint of Bleecker Street is an opera in three acts by Gian Carlo Menotti to an original English libretto by the composer. It was first performed at the Broadway Theatre in New York City in 1954.
The opera is through composed, and set in the intensely-Catholic Little Italy of New York City in 1954. It follows Annina, a young and simple woman who is blessed with the stigmata. She often hears voices and sees visions of the angels. Her brother, Michele, is an atheist who is intensely protective of his sister; he believes she requires hospitalisation, but he cannot stop the rest of the neighborhood from believing her a saint.
The Saint of Bleecker Street won Menotti the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1955. Although it is not part of the standard operatic repertory, recordings of it exist, and it is occasionally performed.
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