Amahl and the Night Visitors 11-12-2010 .... A beloved Christmas favorite. Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti with an original English libretto (an extended musical work) by the composer It was the first opera specifically composed for television in America. The opera is now a popular Christmas classic, although younger audiences who have grown up during the era of MTV and other music video channels probably are not as aware of it as their parents or grandparents were. Commissioned by NBC and first performed by the NBC Opera on December 24, 1951 in New York City, at NBC studio ...
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