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Amahl and the Night Visitors
Amahl and the Night Visitors

Thu, Dec 12

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Johnson Little theatre Morrison Building

Amahl and the Night Visitors

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Dec 12, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Johnson Little theatre Morrison Building, Morrison Building, Councill Blvd, Huntsville, AL 35811, USA

About the event

Amahl and the Night Visitors is a family-friendly opera and has been enduringly popular since its premier in 1951. Commissioned by NBC as the first opera written for television, Amahl and the Night Visitors debuted on December 24, 1951 becoming the first network television Christmas special to become an annual tradition. Composer Gian Carlo Menotti drew inspiration for the opera from Hieronymus Bosch’s The Adoration of the Magi, which hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and from his childhood in Italy where gifts were brought at Christmas by the Three Kings instead of Santa Claus.

Amahl and the Night Visitors tells the story of Amahl, a shepherd boy who has a propensity to tell tall tales, and his mother. Amahl’s most recent story is about a star with a tail that moves across the sky like a chariot on fire. When three splendid strangers knock on the door and ask to rest in their tiny home, Amahl is thrilled and fascinated. When the visitors describe the miraculous child they are seeking, both Amahl and his mother are moved to give reverence to the child as well. Their humble faith conjures a miracle.

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Opera Huntsville

501(C)(3)  Non-profit organization 

Tax ID: 83-2844620

PO Box 2832 Huntsville, AL 35804

  (256) 417-9572 

   info@operahuntsville.org

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