The Medium Menotti

With the help of her daughter and a mute servant phony psychic Madame Flora uses her clients grief to deceive them But one night an uncanny encounter leads to murder and madness Croatian National Theatre Zagrebs production of The Medium offers enough suspense to rival any thriller in just one hour Gian Carlo Menottis musically eclectic Englishlanguage opera mixes Italian verismo with musicallike American modernity as one might expect from a thoroughly AmericanItalian composer and man of theatre