A Christmas Opera Told Through Singers Who Lived It

On Site Opera production of 'Amahl and the Night Visitors' at the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen

Soprano Aundi Marie Moore plays Amahl's mother. On Site Opera

NEW YORK—Gian Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors” is a Christmas nativity story. It is a one-act opera and the first-ever televised opera. The idea for it came to the composer via a sort of divine inspiration.

Growing up in Italy, Menotti didn’t have Santa Claus. Gifts came instead from the Three Kings, but he never stayed awake long enough to catch a glimpse of them.