[DOC] [TLE] Amahl and the Night Visitors - Wikipedia [PAR] 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, .... A telerecording 
of the 1954 performance was broadcast on Christmas Eve 1956 but this 
recording... [DOC] [TLE] Museum Will Revisit a Holiday Treasure in Vintage 'Amahl' - latimes [PAR] Dec 5, 2001 ... Not only was it the first opera commissioned exclusively for. ... Television* A copy 
of the touching Menotti Christmas opera, first aired in 1951, will ... The fledgling 
medium of television took a major leap on Christmas Eve 1951 when "Amahl ... "
Amahl" was also the first program presented under the "Hallmark... [DOC] [TLE] The Peabody Awards - Amahl for All Seasons [PAR] NBC actually employed a director of new opera programming, Peter Herman 
Adler. In 1950, he approached Gian Carlo Menotti, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, ... 
The initial, live production of Amahl on Christmas Eve, 1951, was watched by an 
... Amahl was the first presentation of the now-legendary Hallmark Hall of Fame 
series. [DOC] [TLE] Christmas TV History: Amahl and the Night Visitors [PAR] Dec 11, 2013 ... Amahl and the Night Visitors, Gian Carlo Menotti's stirring opera about a ... 
tradition, creating a sensation with its debut on Christmas Eve 1951. ... 1951 was 
the first broadcast of the Hallmark Hall of Fame, the first opera ever written 
specifically for television, the first program to be broadcast in color (in 1953). [DOC] [TLE] Amahl and the Night Visitors - TVparty! [PAR] The occasion was the world premiere of the first opera ever written expressly for 
... NBC's commitment to it dated back to its pre-television days; its founder, ... 
1951 article in The New York Times, headlined Menotti Writing an Opera for TV, 
.... by a title card announcing that the following program was presented by 
Hallmark. [DOC] [TLE] Amahl and the Night Visitors: A Christmas Opera - CMUSE [PAR] Dec 30, 2015 ... Gian Carlo Menotti's opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, was written for the 1951 
Christmas Eve live broadcast that was the premiere of an NBC series, Hallmark 
Hall of Fame. ... 1475, depicts Mary in the center holding the baby Jesus with the 
Magi or the Three Kings presenting their gifts. Shepherds are... [DOC] [TLE] MENOTTI, GC: Amahl and the Night Visitors / Sebastian Suite - Naxos [PAR] The origins of Gian-Carlo Menotti's popular Christmas opera Amahl and the Night 
Visitors ... Peter Weaver, then the head of programming for the National 
Broadcasting ... The NBC Television Opera Theater made its dbut in 1949 and 
one of its ... on Christmas Eve 1951, with Menotti's partner, the composer Samuel 
Barber,... [DOC] [TLE] Hallmark Cards | AdAge Encyclopedia of Advertising - AdAge [PAR] Sep 15, 2003 ... In 1938, Hall Brothers took its advertising to radio with "Tony Wons' ... In 1953, the 
program was renamed "Hallmark Hall of Fame" and Lionel Barrymore became its 
host. ... In 1951, the company sponsored the first opera written for TV, Gian Carlo 
Menotti's "Amahl & the Night Visitors," on Christmas Eve. [DOC] [TLE] and the Night Visitors - Pescadero Opera Society [PAR] The kings forgive the mother and prepare to leave on their journey. ... Menotti's 
first mature work, the one-act opera buffa, Amelia Goes to the Ball, ... Christmas 
classic Amahl and the Night Visitors, composed for NBC-TV in 1951. .... Amahl 
and the Night Visitors was first presented on December 24, 1951 as the first 
Hallmark... [DOC] [TLE] amahl and the night visitors - Opera Fort Collins [PAR] Dec 21, 2013 ... Summary: Opera Fort Collins proudly presents Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and 
the ... As the Magi rest from their travels in the hut of a poor widow and her ... 
1951 Opera Theatre on Christmas eve as the first Hallmark Hall of Fame

Question: On Christmas Eve, 1951, Hallmark presented its first program, this Menotti opera
Answer: Amahl and the Night Visitors