The Music Plays On — Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors

Original 1951 production — Amahl and the Night Visitors

It is hard to imagine a world in which there were only a few television stations to choose for your at-home entertainment. Harder still to imagine one of those stations commissioning a living American composer to write an opera to be premiered and performed live on national television on Christmas Eve. Yet, such was the case for the Italian-American composer, Gian Carlo Menotti, and his…

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Music Director of the California Symphony and Las Vegas Philharmonic

Donato Cabrera

Music Director of the California Symphony and Las Vegas Philharmonic