Product: Menotti - Amahl and the Night Visitors (1955)
Rating: 5.0
My biggest thrill of Christmas 2008
I couldn't believe that the old black&white version of Amahl was available. I was a child when I first saw it and it became a family tradiiton. By the time the version with Teresa Statas (and color) came out I was a full-blown opera buff. But it was disappointing! She was great but something was missing - a simplicity, a lack of pretension, an intimacy. The dance had lost all its spontaneity. Now it's all come back in this DVD - I wasn't wrong - it wasn't just nostalgia. This is the way it should always be presented - after all, it was written expressly for the cramped stages of TV.