Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Mgbe Menotti na-arụ ọrụ na "The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore", o dere ihe odide maka opera Barber a kasị mara amara, bụ́ "Vanessa", nke e mere na Metropolitan Opera na 1958. N'otu afọ ahụ opera ya "Maria Golovin" bidoro na
Ihe ngosi ụwa nke Brussels na 1958. N'ịbụ nke Peter Herman Adler na NBC Opera nyere iwu, mmepụta ahụ kwagara na Martin Beck Theatre na Broadway na 1959 ma a na-ese ya maka mgbasa ozi telivishọn na mba na NBC. Ndị na-eme ihe nkiri ahụ nọgidere na-adịgide adịgide ma gụnye Patricia Neway, Ruth Kobart, Norman Kelley, William Chapman, na Richard Cross.