^Lot 650 Gian Carlo Menotti

Two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning Italian American composer (1911–2007) best known for such popular operas as The Consul, The Saint of Bleecker Street, and Amahl and the Night Visitors. TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Festival Foundation, Inc. letterhead, April 4, 1956. Brief note to Miss Straight. In part: “I am forwarding to you a folder describing the project of Festival Foundation.” Under his signature, Menotti adds a handwritten postscript which reads, “I am sorry I didn’t have a chance to talk to you at Greta Keller the other day—but you know how cocktail parties are!!” In fine condition, some light creasing and wrinkling.