Interview: Gian Carlo Menotti discusses his opera, "Amahl and The Night Visitors," the first televised children's opera

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Interview: Gian Carlo Menotti discusses his opera, "Amahl and The Night Visitors," the first televised children's opera

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Fifty years ago tonight on Christmas Eve 1951, NBC Television presented something historic: an opera for children commissioned for television. This was a program from a different age when only one-third of American households owned one of those new luxury appliances: a television set. The audience ...

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