As reported on the BBC
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti has died in a Monaco hospital aged 95.
Born in Italy in 1911, he founded arts festivals in Spoleto in Italy - where he was known affectionately as "the mad maestro" - and in the US.
Menotti also wrote Amahl and the Night Visitors in 1951, thought to have been the first opera written for television.
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A sad day for the world of opera
