The Telephone was written for the Ballet Society in New York City, and premiered in February 1947 at the Heckscher Theater. Composer Gian Carlo Menotti crafted both the libretto and the music to be an opener for his short opera The Medium , with which it is frequently double-billed. The Telephone itself runs just about 25 minutes. The pair of shows has appeared together on Broadway later the same year, and the Metropolitan Opera performed The Telephone as part of a concert in 1965.
Due to its approachable scale, the show is very popular with small regional and collegiate companies. It takes
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