Word: amahl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...OPERA (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). All-new production of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Amahl and the Night Visitors, an NBC Christmas staple since 1951. Color...
Gian Carlo Menotti owes a large part of his fame to television and the fact that Amahl has replaced Tiny Tim as America's favorite Christmas cripple. Though Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951), like Maria Golovin (1958), was written primarily for television, the composer carefully followed all the conventions of stage presentation, and both works have been sung in theaters. But Menotti has finally gone all the way. His latest opera, Labyrinth, commissioned like the others by NBC and shown for the first time this week, would be impossible on the stage...
...Amahl and the Night Visitors (NBC, 3:30-4:30 p.m.). A repeat of the NBC Opera Company's much-praised production of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera...
Last Christmas, Speeth's fifth graders staged Amahl and the Night Visitors, went on to an uncut version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. This summer a church volunteered use of the vacant "theater" building, where Speeth and volunteer collegians held six-hour daily classes for 101 kids in literature, music appreciation, dancing and dramatics, with play rehearsals after hours...
...Amahl and the Night Visitors (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). The NBC Opera Co. in the eleventh annual presentation of Gian Carlo Menotti's Christmas opera...