Past Event
Friday, December 4, 2015, 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Amahl and the Night Visitors
6225 Paseo Delicias, Rancho Santa Fe, 92091
Cost: $15 - $30
Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors is a fully staged Christmas opera production, featuring a live symphony orchestra. Based on Italian folk tales of the Nativity and Epiphany, it is a retelling of the story of the Magi from the point of view of a young disabled boy named Amahl. He lives in poverty with his widowed mother near Bethlehem. One night, he sees a bright star in the sky and tells his mother to go look. She brushes him off, buried in concern over their bleak future and lack of means with which to support themselves. That night, three kings come across their meager hut and seek shelter, for they have traveled long and far following the star of which Amahl had spoken.