Studio One - Gian Carlo Menotti: The Medium

1948 · drama

12 Dec 1948 In this opera, alcoholic Madame Flora stages another fake séance for her customers with the help of young Monica and Toby. The terrified faker calls a halt to the proceedings when she feels a pair of hands clutching her throat. Madame Flora accuses Toby of choking her despite his claims of innocence. Days later, the drunken woman thinks she hears a ghost in her room and begins firing at the would-be specter.