Mozart's Attic Sunday December 12th at 6:00 p.m.

By Jay Lamy (Jayski)

Published December 8, 2021 at 3:26 PM EST

The original television broadcast of Amahl and the Night Visitors in 1951

There wasn’t a lot of Christmas programming on television in 1952….. There wasn’t much programming, period. It was anyone’s guess as to where this new entertainment medium was headed.

NBC, the more performing-arts-oriented of the networks, commissioned a one-hour opera from Gian Carlo Menotti, and Amahl and the Night Visitors aired on Christmas eve. This tale of a visit by the Three Kings became an instant holiday classic, and we’ll have a performance of it this Sunday.

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Jay Lamy (Jayski)

Originally from central Massachusetts, Jay has called the Space Coast home for more than 30 years. He began his association with WFIT in the late '90s as a dumpster diver for office furniture in response to a broadcast plea for a new chair from a frustrated disc jockey. (WFIT has come a long way since.)

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