Opera buffa In one act by Gian-Carlo Menotti sung in Italian: on records
Cast in order of singing:
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Conducted BY NINO Sanzocno
Amelia Goes to the Ball, written when Menotti was twenty-three, was produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, in 1937. The story (set in a large European city during the early years of this century) concerns Amelia's unflagging intention to go to the ball, even when her husband discovers her lover and threatens to shoot him. The police are eventually called in. and the climax to the comedy is reached when the police inspector himself partners Amelia to the ball.