Organization

Admin

Central City Opera Summer Festival

Conductor

Brandon Eldredge

Chorus master

Steven Aguiló-Arbues

Stage director

Daniela Guzmán-Égüez

Costume designer

Mia Chase

Production Manager

Margaret Ozaki Graves

Singer

Child vocalist

Brian Erickson

Amahl

Soprano

Jennifer DeDominici

The Mother

Tenor

Eric Botto

King Kaspar

Baritone

Jonathan Hays

King Melchior

Bass

Errol-Wesley Shaw

King Balthzar

Silent

Mason O’Brien

The Page

Others

Colorado Children's Chorale

Amahl and the Night Visitors

Denver

United States

L2 Church

Amahl and the Night Visitors: Amahl and the Night Visitors Menotti

Public

Alejandro Alberto Giess Sarmiento

Approved

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.

English

Amahl and the Night Visitors by Menotti, From (2023/2023), Directed by Daniela Guzmán-Égüez,, Conductor Brandon Eldredge, L2 Church, Denver, United States

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