Amahl And The Night Visitors The Merry Music of Christmas

Amahl-The-Night-Visitors-Libretto - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. This document provides a summary of the opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors" including a brief description of the characters and plot.. Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti with an original English libretto by the composer. It was commissioned by NBC and first performed by the NBC Opera Theatre on December 24, 1951, in New York City at NBC studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, where it was broadcast live on television as the debut production of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was the first opera.

Amahl and the Nightvisitors Libretto ONLY ACT (A child sits outside a poor shack of a house gazing earnestly at the sky). Amahl and the Night Visitors, the first opera commissioned especially for tele- vision, was given its world premiere by the NBC Television Theater on Christ- mas Eve, 1951, under the direction of Mr. Menotti. The opera was produced by Samuel Chotzinoff and the sets were designed by Eugene Berman.