Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors
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Free Music Review: excellent quality
Hit: 5 Stars
the cd has a very good audio quality, and for people that want to here the opera for practicing, this is a good product to buy.Free Music Review: The only one to buy!
Hit: 5 Stars
This recording is absolutely the best! Even my 8 and 4 year old daughters love it! We listen all the time!Free Music Review: Singer of Amahal
Hit: 5 Stars
...This cd is great and so is the opera. If you love operas that aren't too long and boring buy this cd!!!Free Music Review: Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors, original cast
Hit: 5 Stars
This brings back childhood memories but holds up well even now. This was an excellent production.Free Music Review: Sweet Memories
Hit: 4 Stars
My youthful memories of Christmas are rekindled by this masterpiece written directly for television. And amazingly, in a very short span of time. As a child of the 50s & 60s, "Amahl and the Night Visitors" will always stay in my heart. This was a huge part of my childhood Christmas tradition year after year.
I couldn't quite give this recording any higher rating than four stars though, due to the reproductive quality of the old mono sound. But I would still recommend it for the most part. Probably not the program I grew up on, since this is the original from the very early 50s; I was born in 1955. But the power of this story and the superb music written as an opera, probably the best ever composed for television, will delight anyone familiar with this work. And I'm sure many others will be won over as new listeners.
There are said to be many local stage productions of this classic annually, but I've only had the pleasure of seeing it once live on stage, and that was the early 70s, put on by my high school drama and music departments. There was even a newer production shot in Israel in the late 70s, but I didn't enjoy that much higher budgeted effort anywhere near as much as the earlier version I remember, or this recording from the original cast done back in 1952. The newer version just didn't have the same emotion or magic. So much for location scenery.
At this time, I await with great anticipation, the black-and-white DVD offered here on Amazon that I recently ordered. They also offer the newer 70s version, but I wasn't interested. Be forewarned though, the very dramatic ending will bring many to tears, especially from "All That Gold" to "Oh, Woman, You Can Keep The Gold." A television classic.