December 24, 1951 –
Gian Carlo Menotti’s one act opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors premiered on this date. It has become a Christmas classic.
The one surviving kinescope of this first production was thought to have been lost forever, accidentally destroyed by someone at NBC after it had been screened for an executive, but another copy was discovered at the Museum of Radio and Television, in New York.
The Haus of Dcaligari 