Kammala wannan magana: Yayin da yake aiki a kan "The Unicorn, da Gorgon, da kuma Manticore" ', Menotti ya kirkiro litattafai don shahararren wasan kwaikwayo na Barber, "Vanessa", wanda aka fara a Metropolitan Opera a shekarar 1958. A wannan shekarar ne aka fara wasan opera dinsa "Maria Golovin" a
Bikin baje kolin duniya na Brussels na 1958. Peter Herman Adler da NBC Opera suka ba da izini, an sake yin fim din zuwa gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Martin Beck a Broadway a 1959 kuma an kuma yi fim don watsa shirye-shiryen talabijin na kasa a NBC. 'Yan wasan sun kasance ba su canzawa ba kuma sun hada da Patricia Neway, Ruth Kobart, Norman Kelley, William Chapman, da Richard Cross.