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    The NBC Opera Theatre (sometimes mistakenly spelled NBC Opera Theater and sometimes referred to as the NBC Opera Company) was an American opera company...
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    Amahl and the Night Visitors (category 1951 operas)
    commissioned by NBC and first performed by the NBC Opera Theatre on December 24, 1951, in New York City at NBC Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, where it was...
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    Griffelkin (category 1955 operas)
    telecast by the NBC Opera Theatre. Following the success of Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, NBC decided to present new operas by other American...
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    Labyrinth is an opera in one act by composer Gian Carlo Menotti. The work was commissioned for television by the NBC Opera Theatre and uses an English...
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    Trouble in Tahiti (category Operas by Leonard Bernstein)
    Massachusetts, to an audience of nearly 3,000 people. The NBC Opera Theatre subsequently presented the opera on television in November 1952, a production which...
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    Chet Allen (category 20th-century American male opera singers)
    Amahl and the Night Visitors, the first opera written for television, which he made with the NBC Opera Theatre. Allen was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, and...
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    director of the NBC Opera Theatre (1950–64) and the National Educational Television Opera. He was a pioneer of televised broadcast of opera, commissioning...
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    television by the NBC, and the NBC Opera Theatre performed the work's world premiere on their television program NBC TV Opera Theatre for a national broadcast...
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    Maria Golovin (category 1958 operas)
    after a war. The work was commissioned by Peter Herman Adler of the NBC Opera Theatre. Its first performance was at the International Exposition Pavilion...
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  • Chester Kallman (category American opera librettists)
    translation of the libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder for an NBC Opera Theatre production of the opera by Mozart). New York: Random House. Anne Boleyn (1959;...
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