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"Music of the Heart\nComposer Gian Carlo Menotti at Home in Spoleto, Italy\nFrom atop the terraced landscape behind legendary opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti's recently renovated town house, the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta defines the Umbrian skyline.\nThe 95-year-old Menotti and his adopted son, Francis Menotti.\nIn the salon of Francis Menotti's nearby country house, a rustic cathedral ceiling characterizes a room otherwise distinguished by its 15th-century stone fire surround and paintings such as a Leonardo Cremonini oil, above the fireplace, and Milena Barilli's The Invalid.\nElsewhere in the salon, beside a doorway, is one of two circa 1820 Neapolitan marquetry chests. The wax statue, early 18th century, has a fabric costume. The embroidered velvet cape is from the 1996 Spoleto production of the elder Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors.\nThe close proximity of the Menottis' residences allows for frequent visits between father and son\u2014occasions when Gian Carlo often sits at Francis's Steinway baby grand and plays from memory.\nResting atop a desk in the salon is a Menotti work in progress.\nFrancis Menotti's bedroom overlooks the cathedral and the Piazza del Duomo, site of the Festival of Two Worlds. Above the bed is a grouping of 19th-century biblical prints from M\u00E1laga, Spain. The red, white and black carnival-themed collage is by Demetrios Psillos.\nTwo potted trees mark the front entrance to Gian Carlo Menotti's four-story town house, center right, which is situated on Spoleto's Piazza del Duomo. Each day of the festival, in the salon just behind the open-air top-floor arcade, the Menottis entertain special guests.\nA corner of the expansive salon is reserved for informal dining. Beyond the 19th-century Umbrian mahogany table, above the cherry buffet with its reclining angel stone sculpture from the Veneto, is a tableau in tempera from Bergamo's San Simone church.\nOn the desk in front of Gian Carlo Menotti's Steinway baby grand, a gift from philanthropist Alice Tully, is an arrangement of personal mementos. The silver frames hold written prayers. The Italian painting of Joseph leading Mary is circa 1700."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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