For 10 points, name this work of Gian Carlo Menotti, the first opera to be premiered on television.
The small chorus appears as a group of dancing shepherds and shepherdesses in this one-act opera's second half, while much of the early moments of the opera are spent by the Mother scolding her child for his mendacity. Thomas Schippers conducted the landmark first performance of this opera, in which a disabled boy is cured of his ailments while on the way to visit the infant Jesus. For 10 points, name this work of Gian Carlo Menotti, the first opera to be premiered on television.
The small chorus appears as a group of dancing shepherds and shepherdesses in this one-act opera's second half, while much of the early moments of the opera are spent by the Mother scolding her child for his mendacity.
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