Amahl and the Night Visitors
by Gian Carlo Menotti
- Type: Album
- Released: 1 January 1952
- Label: RCA Victor
- Country: United States
- Community rating: 4.12/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The first opera composed for television, 'Amahl and the Night Visitors' was commissioned by NBC and premiered live on Christmas Eve 1951 as the inaugural Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, before an audience of some five million. Menotti supervised this original-cast recording weeks later, with twelve-year-old Chet Allen in the title role, Rosemary Kuhlmann as the Mother and Thomas Schippers conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra.
Genres
Descriptors: operatic, choral, orchestral, vocal, storytelling
Tracklist
Credits
- Gian Carlo Menotti - primary artist, composed by, written-by
- Thomas Schippers - primary artist, conductor
- Chet Allen - soprano vocals [boy]
- Hieronymus Bosch - artwork