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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 Musical theatre television specials)
    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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    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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    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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    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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    Thomas Jolly (category French opera directors)
    Rouen) is a French actor and artistic director of La Piccola Familia, a theatre company that he founded in Rouen in 2006. Jolly directed the national drama...
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  • Ruth Kobart (category 20th-century American women opera singers)
    [citation needed] She frequently toured with the NBC Opera Theatre (NBCOT) and the New York City Opera (NYCO). With the NBCOT she notably created the role...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Leon Lishner (category 20th-century American male opera singers)
    world premieres of four of his operas. He performed in many productions with the New York City Opera and the NBC Opera Theatre during the 1950s and early...
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  • Andrew McKinley (category 20th-century American male opera singers)
    Night Visitors (1951). The latter opera was made by the NBC Opera Theatre, and McKinley filmed several more operas with that organization during his career...
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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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  • Paul Ukena (category 20th-century American male opera singers)
    Delius's Requiem in 1950. He was one of the founding members of the NBC Opera Theatre, a company he performed with throughout the 1950s in such productions...
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    entertainment as an integrated whole. Although musical theatre overlaps with other theatrical forms like opera and dance, it may be distinguished by the equal...
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    Leontyne Price (category 20th-century American women opera singers)
    All three were available on YouTube. Kinescopes of NBC Opera Theatre performances are locked in NBC vaults and have never been released on disc or videotape...
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  • Giorgio Tozzi (category 20th-century American male opera singers)
    nationally broadcast performance of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov with the NBC Opera Theatre. In 1958, he created the role of The Doctor in Samuel Barber's Vanessa...
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    Bonnie Bedelia (category American soap opera actresses)
    American actress. After beginning her career in theatre in the 1960s, Bedelia starred in the CBS daytime soap opera Love of Life and made her film debut in The...
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    telecast production that aired January 1950 as the first show of the NBC Opera Theatre series. A review of mixed opinion signed "R.P." said that Bell "acted...
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    Sal Mineo (category American theatre directors)
    (lip-synching to the voice of mezzo-soprano Carol Jones) in the NBC Opera Theatre's production of Richard Strauss's Salome (in English translation),...
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    Gian Carlo Menotti (category American opera composers)
    Menotti. His television opera Labyrinth was premiered by the NBC Opera Theatre. Unlike Amahl and the Night Visitors, this opera was never intended to be...
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  • Herman Adler (1899–1990), Czech-born American conductor, director of NBC Opera Theatre (1950–1964) Charles S. Adler (1862–1911), American politician from...
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  • to honor the best in television of the year. The ceremony was held at the NBC Studios in Burbank, California. Desi Arnaz hosted the event. All nominations...
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  • made several recordings of complete operas with the American Opera Society (AOS) on disc and the NBC Opera Theatre for television. Hurley was born in Allentown...
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    Shannon Bolin (category American opera singers)
    CBS program Your Town and Ours. Bolin appeared on television in the NBC Opera Theatre production of Suor Angelica, in which she played the Princess, and...
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  • Chester Watson (bass-baritone) (category 20th-century American male opera singers)
    operas and concerts from the late 1940s into the 1970s. He was particularly active as a performer in opera on American television with the NBC Opera Theatre...
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  • Nineteen Eighty-Four, has been adapted for the cinema, radio, television, theatre, opera and ballet. The first feature-length adaptation, 1984, was directed...
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    2012, used by NBC for live musicals each December, including The Sound of Music Live, Peter Pan Live, and The Wiz Live. Hudson Theatre, 141 West 44th...
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  • presented to the best directing of a television comedy series. CBS – 15 ABC – 14 NBC – 14 Amazon – 4 Fox – 4 HBO – 4 Apple TV+ - 1 FX – 1 HBO Max — 1 Pop TV –...
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