Product Review

Gian Carlo Menotti's first full-length
opera, this politically charged work
won the Pulitzer Prize for Music
and the New York Drama Critics
Circle Award for Best Musical (both
in 1950). This is the first time that this early television studio recording of The
Consul has been available on DVD.
All-star cast includes Melitta
Muszely, Eberhard Waechter, Res
Fischer and Hilde Konetzni. Franz
Bauer-Theussl leads the Orchestra
of the Wiener Volksoper.
Bonus material includes an
interview with Menotti.