Iskender wrote: >Thanks, I'll try it with the Serebrier LSO performance. But this still >does not answer the question whether the Maestro is alive or no... Here's the beginning of the New York Times obituary: Gian Carlo Menotti, Opera Composer, Dies at 95 By BERNARD HOLLAND Published: February 2, 2007 Gian Carlo Menotti, who wrote his first opera before he was 11 and went on to become perhaps the most popular and prolific opera composer of his time, winning two Pulitzer Prizes, died Thursday in Monaco, where he had a home. He was 95. The full obituary can be accessed at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/arts/music/02menotti.html?ref=obituaries Scott Morrison