Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Achiri kushanda pa"The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore", Menotti akagadzira libretto yeopera yaBarber yakakurumbira zvikuru, "Vanessa", iyo yakatanga kuratidzwa paMetropolitan Opera muna 1958. Gore iroro opera yake "Maria Golovin" yakatanga kuratidzwa paBrussels World's Fair muna 1958
. Yakarongedzwa naPeter Herman Adler uye NBC Opera, kugadzirwa kwakaendeswa kuMartin Beck Theatre paBroadway muna 1959 uye yakatorwawo firimu nhepfenyuro yeterevhizheni yenyika paNBC. Vatambi vacho vakaramba varipo nguva dzose uye vaisanganisira Patricia Neway, Ruth Kobart, Norman Kelley, William Chapman, naRichard Cross.