The holidays have arrived, and here on the OBS we’re ready to celebrate. How? With a three-part series examining holiday operas, of course. Tonight, we take a closer look at Gian Carlo Menotti’s Christmas opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors”. Tender feel-good show or cheap sentimentality? We’ll tell you what we think...

But first, we discuss the Metropolitan Opera’s struggle to program new commissions. We’ll let you know what the problems are and how they might be solved...

Also, you get all your opera headlines and our hot takes on them in ‘The Two Minute Drill’...

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