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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...
...first opera to be commissioned by TV-and a much-applauded Christmas Eve production-was Amahl and the Night Visitors...
...Opera announced a spring season in the best Halasz tradition. In addition to eleven operas from current repertory, it promised productions of i) Alban Berg's tragic opera, Wozzeck, which no U.S. audience has seen in 21 years, 2) a stage version of Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, and 3) a new adaptation, by Marc Blitzstein, of Kurt Weill's The Three-Penny Opera. Possible hitch: Halasz, who is still fighting his year-end dismissal (TIME, Dec. 31), contends that, under his last contract, none of last year's repertory...
Other winners: Bohuslav Martinu's Comedy on the Bridge (best new opera), Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony (best choral work), William Schuman's Judith (best dance score), Gian-Carlo Menotti's TV opera Amahl and the Night Visitors (a special citation to Menotti...