Product: Menotti - Amahl and the Night Visitors (1955)
Rating: 5.0
Great Christmas nostalgia for the 50+ generation: lovely!
Amahl and the Night Visitors was a part of all of my early childhood Christmases, shown on the little family black-and-white TV in our 1950's, 1960's living room, and some years just aired on NPR on the radio (turned up loud on my dad's "hi-fi" so that we could listen to it in our beds.) For me and for many of my generation, this is the ultimate Christmas nostalgia item. I can still sing along to every word, and my grandchildren watched it over and over with me in fascination, pulled into the romantic story of the little crippled boy visited by the 3 kings on their way to the Christ child. Excellent sound quality and heart-wrenchingly beautiful voices.