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The Consul

Opened 1950

269 performances

Musical, Golden Age

The Consul
Carl Van Vechten

Gian-Carlo Menotti’s Cold War opera The Consul won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical and the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for music. It was a powerful self-described “musical drama” that depicted an unnamed totalitarian country whose citizens are persecuted by secret police and a Kafkaesque bureaucracy.

Music
Gian Carlo Menotti
Lyrics
Gian Carlo Menotti
Book
Gian Carlo Menotti

Productions2 on Broadway

1903
Princess TheatreBroadway Original, opened January 19, 1903
24 performances
1950
Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway Revival, opened March 15, 1950, directed by Gian Carlo Menotti
269 performances

Recordings 2 recordings

1998
The Consul
The Consul Newport Classic NPD 85645, released 1998
United States
1999
The Consul Chandos CHAN 9706(2), released 1999
United Kingdom

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