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Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors 2008 




Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, the first opera written for television, enjoys more than five hundred performances annually around the world and is immensely popular with amateur groups. A crippled boy, Amahl, and his mother are visited by the three Kings who seek the newborn Jesus. Deciding to give his crutch to the Christ child, he is miraculously healed, and joyfully accompanies the Kings to give thanks. Sung in English, brimming with tuneful melodies for both soloists and chorus, the opera is a humorous and poignant Christmas classic beloved by people of all ages.


Tracklist

Menotti, Gian Carlo - Lyricist


Amahl and the Night Visitors
  1 Amahl! Amahl! (Mother, Amahl) 03:49
  2 Oh, Mother, you should go out and see! (Amahl, Mother) 01:36
  3 Stop bothering me! (Mother, Amahl) 01:04
  4 Poor Amahl! Hunger has gone to your head (Mother) 00:45
  5 Don't cry, Mother dear (Amahl, Mother) 02:19
  6 From far away we come (King Kaspar, King Melchior, King Balthazar) 02:21
  7 Amahl… Yes, Mother (Mother, Amahl) 03:01
  8 Good Evening! Good Evening! (King Kaspar, King Melchior, King Balthazar, Amahl, Mother) 01:18
  9 Come in, Come in! (Mother, King Melchior, Amahl) 02:01
  10 Are you a real king? (Amahl, King Balthazar, King Kaspar) 02:23
  11 This is my box (King Kaspar) 01:43
  12 Amahl, I told you not to be a nuisance! (Mother, Amahl) 00:37
  13 Oh, these beautiful things (Mother, King Melchior) 00:43
  14 Have you seen a child (King Melchior, Mother, King Balthazar, King Kaspar) 04:04
  15 Shepherds! Shepherdesses! (Chorus, Mother, King Melchior) 00:20
  16 Emily! Emily! (Chorus, Mother) 01:31
  17 Olives and quinces (Chorus, King Kaspar, King Melchior, King Balthazar, Mother) 01:03
  18 Shepherds' Dance 03:20
  19 Thank you, good friends (King Balthazar, Chorus, Amahl, King Kaspar) 03:07
  20 All that gold! (Mother) 02:39
  21 Thief! Thief! (Page, King Melchoir, King Balthazar, King Kaspar) 00:18
  22 Don't you dare! (Amahl) 00:49
  23 Oh, woman, you may keep the gold (King Melchior) 01:55
  24 Oh, no, wait… take back your gold! (Mother, Amahl) 00:36
  25 I walk, mother! (Amahl, King Kaspar, King Melchior, King Balthazar, Mother, Page) 02:17
  26 Do you really want to go? (Mother, Amahl, King Kaspar, King Balthazar) 01:27
  27 Shepherds, Arise! (Chorus, King Melchior, Amahl) 01:59
My Christmas
  28 My Christmas 12:31



Composer(s): Menotti, Gian Carlo
Lyricist(s): Menotti, Gian Carlo
Conductor(s): Mabry, George; Willis, Alastair
Orchestra(s): Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Choir(s): Chicago Symphony Chorus; Nashville Symphony Chorus
Artist(s): Anthony, Dean; Gunlogson, Kirsten; Hawkersmith, Ike; LeFan, Bart; Short, Kevin; Thomas, Todd
Label: Naxos
Series: American Classics
Genre: Choral - Secular; Opera
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: 8.669019
Barcode: 0730099901970
Release Date: 11/2008


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