Word: amahl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present, Menotti will be busy directing new performances of his operas: Amahl and the Night Visitors for TV on Christmas Day (he had to find a new boy soprano, since two earlier ones are teetering on the vocal edge of manhood) and a concert performance of The Consul in Philadelphia next month. After that he will concentrate on the score and libretto of The Saint of Bleecker Street, which "may take me five years. I don't care. I have been reading about saints. It is very difficult...
...AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS (89 pp.)-Gian-Carlo Menotti-McGraw-Hill ($2.75). A fine book version of the story Composer Menotti wrote for his TV Christmas opera last year (TIME, Dec. 31), in which a crippled shepherd boy adds his crutch to the gifts of the Three Wise...
Composer Gian-Carlo Menotti, 41, won another accolade last week: a whole concert given over to his music in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium. There were selections from his operas Amelia Goes to the Ball, The Consul, Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Island God, The Old Maid and the Thief, as well as part of his ballet Sebastian and his Piano Concerto. By the end of the evening, Menotti had proved again that he is one of the most melodious composers of the day and a natural for a summer evening outdoors. Thomas Schippers. 22, led the Menotti program...
Musical Entertainment: Gian-Carlo Menotti and NBC, for the "tender and moving one-act opera Amahl and the Night Visitors...
...Amahl and the Night Visitors (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). A new showing of Gian-Carlo Menotti's TV opera, starring Chet Allen...