All tickets to the 2020 production of Amahl & The Night Visitors are SOLD OUT.

Please come see us March 21st at Lost Nation Theater for our Spring Program.

It all started when…

The MCO brought this opera to Montpelier in 2017.  Now, with the support of MontpelierALIVE’s Downtown Events Grant, Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, National Life Group, and Northfield Savings Bank, MCO is poised to make this a bi-annual event.  The composer, Gian Carlo Menotti, grew up in Italy where Christmas gifts were delivered by the Three Kings. What gifts will each king carry?

The first opera written for television (1951), the one-act piece tells the sweet story of a young, disabled boy (Amahl) who tells his mother a tale of a giant star rising in the sky.  Little does the boy and mother know that three Kings will soon come to their home looking for rest. Conflict arises when the mother steals treasure from the Kings. The Kings forgive and offer up the treasure as a gift.  The Kings tell of the birth of the Christ child and Amahl is so moved that he offers his crutch as a gift to the child (it is all he has). As Amahl offers his crutch, his leg miraculously heals!

December 24th is the last day before ticket prices increase: tickets make a great gift!

Vocal Soloists:
Mother -- Mary Bonhag

Amahl -- Edie Donofrio

King Kaspar -- Adam Hall

King Melchior -- Erik Kroncke

King Balthazar -- Jose Schmidt

The Page -- Skip Potter

Dancers:

Mother -- Christine Harris

Amahl -- Lily Meyer

Village Dancers -- Bridget Wheeler & Natalie Wheeler

Puppeteers:

King Balthazar — Janice Walrafen

King Kaspar — Jason Mallery

King Melchoir — Mia Leonard

Page — Monroe Swift

Music Director Anne Decker leads the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra

Vocal Director Mary Jane Austin leads the Regional Choir

Sopranos

Betsy D. Ainsworth - Waterbury

Lillian Broderick - Northfield

Jane Cunningham - Warren

Claire Dumas - Plainfield

Erin McIntyre - Montpelier

Carrie Youngblood - Montpelier

Altos

Barbara Barra - Waterbury Center

Rebecca Kneale Gould - Monkton

Stéphanie Mérat - Orange

Nessa Rabin - Montpelier

Linda Sinnott - Fayston

Tenors

Bob Emmons - South Duxbury

Skip Potter - Barre

Andy Ross - Montpelier

Basses

John Buck - Waterbury

Rick Rayfield - Waitsfield

Sandy Stephen - Braintree