Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors (complete opera, sung in German, recorded in 2022)

 
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GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors (complete opera, sung in German, recorded in 2022)
Tempu Ishijima (boy soprano), Dshamilja Kaiser, Paul Schweinester / Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Wiener Symphoniker, Magnus Loddgard

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Release Date: Friday 1 December 2023

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Rated: G - Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993Suitable for General Audiences

Filmed on 17 and 18 December 2022 at Museums Quartier, Hall E, MusikTheater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria

Premiered in 1951, Amahl and the Night Visitors was the first opera specifically composed for television, though Gian Carlo Menotti admitted that he had conceived it for the stage. The magical story tells of Amahl, a disabled boy who befriends the Three Kings when they stop at his house on their journey to see the newborn Jesus. Amahl decides to give his crutch to Jesus, at which point his leg is miraculously healed.

Long a Christmas favourite, this new Viennese production, sung in German, boldly re-examines the story finding its key elements to be fantasy, empathy and the enduring power of love.

Subtitles: German, English, Japanese, Korean

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