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Maria Golovin is an English language opera in three acts by Gian Carlo Menotti. It is through-composed and centers on a romantic encounter between a blind recluse named Donato and the title character, a married woman living in a European country a few years after a war.
Maria Golovin es una ópera en tres actos con música de Gian Carlo Menotti. Se estrenó en el Teatro Pabellón de la Exposición Internacional en la Expo '58 de Bruselas el 20 de agosto de 1958. Se centra en un encuentro romántico entre un recluso ciego llamado Donato y el rol titular, una mujer casada que vive en un país europeo unos pocos ...
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Golovnina was born in Russia, and raised in Japan. Her father was long time ITAR-TASS Tokyo correspondent Vasily Golovnin. She was distantly related to the Russian explorer Vasily Golovnin. Although her first languages were Russian and Japanese, her reporting for Reuters was largely in English.
Golovnina began working for Reuters in 2001 in Tokyo. She worked in London, Singapore and Seoul before being posted in Russia from 2002 to 2005, where she covered topics such as the Moscow theater hostage crisis. In 2005, she became Reuters' chief correspondent in Central Asia. She covered the presidential election in Afghanistan in 2009 and did se...
In 2015, Golovnina was found unconscious in the bathroom of her office in Islamabad, after reporting that she felt sick to her stomach, and was rushed to hospital but died on the way, at the age of 34. Preliminary autopsy findings at the Pakistan Institute for Medical Sciences concluded that she died of asphyxiation due to a blockage in her upper r...
Maria Golovín: Directed by Gian Carlo Menotti. With Franca Duval, Richard Cross, Patricia Neway, Ruth Kobart.
- Gian Carlo Menotti
- Franca Duval, Richard Cross, Patricia Neway
Maria Golovín (TV Movie 1959) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
RCA chairman and Brigadier-General David Sarnoff sent the NBC Opera Company abroad to perform Gian-Carlo Menotti’s new opera Maria Golovín as part of the US exhibition at the Brussels World Fair in 1958 (Figure 1).
In this old-fashioned romantic opera Maria Golovin, a married woman whose husband is a prisoner of war, comes with her young son to spend the summer in a villa in which she has rented apartments. She soon falls in love with Donato, a budding architect who was blinded in the war and whose mother owns the villa.
