What is The Saint of Bleecker Street?
{{italictitle}} [[File:Gcmenotti.jpg|thumb|Menotti in 1944]] '''''The Saint of Bleecker Street''''' is a three-act [[opera]] with words and music by [[Gian Carlo Menotti]]. It was first performed at The Broadway Theatre in [[New York City]] on December 27, 1954. The opera won the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for Music in 1955 and the [[New York Drama Critics Circle]] award for best [[musical]]. The opera is about a young woman in [[New York City]]'s Little Italy who receives the [[stigmata]]. {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint of Bleecker Street}} [[Category:Compositions by Gian Carlo Menotti]] [[Category:Stigmata]] [[Category:1950s operas]] [[Category:1954 works]] {{music-stub}}