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Menotti - Amahl and the Night Visitors | Naxos - Opera 8669019

Menotti - Amahl and the Night Visitors

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Label: Naxos - Opera

Cat No: 8669019

Barcode: 0730099901970

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Christmas

Release Date: 27th October 2008

Contents

Artists

Ike Hawkersmith (treble)
Kirsten Gunlogson (mezzo-soprano)
Dean Anthony (tenor)
Todd Thomas (baritone)
Kevin Short (bass-baritone)
Bart Lefan (baritone)
Nashville Symphony Chorus
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Nashville Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Alastair Willis
George Mabry

Works

Menotti, Gian Carlo

Amahl and the Night Visitors
My Christmas

Artists

Ike Hawkersmith (treble)
Kirsten Gunlogson (mezzo-soprano)
Dean Anthony (tenor)
Todd Thomas (baritone)
Kevin Short (bass-baritone)
Bart Lefan (baritone)
Nashville Symphony Chorus
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Nashville Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Alastair Willis
George Mabry

About

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.

Amahl and the Night Visitors is a perennial Christmas classic that has little competition on CD. There is no recorded competition for My Christmas.

Cast:
- Amahl: Ike Hawkersmith (treble)
- Mother: Kirsten Gunlogson (mezzo-soprano)
- King Kaspar: Dean Anthony (tenor)
- King Melchior: Todd Thomas (baritone)
- King Balthazar: Kevin Short (bass-baritone)
- Page to the Kings: Bart LeFan (baritone)
Nashville Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Chorus
Nashville Symphony Orchestra / Alastair Willis

Only one of Menotti’s operas can truly be said to have achieved lasting popularity: “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” a brief, modest work created for NBC television and first performed in a live broadcast on Christmas Eve in 1951…..The work’s appeal is obvious. Menotti’s music is attractive and unfailingly lyrical.” - The New York Times

My Christmas is performed by the Nashville Symphony Chorus, conducted by George Mabry.

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