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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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in 2008. NBC Opera Theatre: Carmen (1953) NBC Opera Theatre: La bohème (1957) Kennedy Center Tonight:Stravinsky's Firebird by the Dance Theatre of Harlem...
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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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Kathleen Noone (category American soap opera actresses)
be axed by NBC. In 1998 and 1999, for her portrayal of Bette, Noone was nominated in the category of "Female Scene Stealer" at the Soap Opera Digest Awards...
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Patricia Neway (category 20th-century American women opera singers)
Martin Beck Theatre, under the umbrella of the NBC Opera Theatre. The following year she sang the role again with the New York City Opera in addition...
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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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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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Kim Hawthorne (category American soap opera actresses)
Hawthorne replaced Michelle Hurd in the role of Dana Kramer on the NBC soap opera, Another World. From 1997 to 1998, she starred in Cy Coleman's Broadway...
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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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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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Elaine Malbin (category 20th-century American women opera singers)
Scottish Opera Company. She is perhaps best remembered for appearing in several opera roles live for television with the NBC Opera Theatre and for recording...
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