Opera

Amahl and the Night Visitors

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Gian Carlo Menotti’s *Amahl and the Night Visitors* is a one-act classical opera in English that follows a poor boy and his mother as unexpected guests arrive on their way to Bethlehem. The work holds a particular New York City place in opera history: it was first performed in 1951 at NBC’s Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, created for a live television broadcast. Now at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, it stands as an early example of opera shaped by modern media. Its direct storytelling feels deliberately plainspoken.