Produced by Christopher Muir Country Australia Initial release 18 December 1957 Producer Christopher Muir | Release date 25 December 1957 Language English Screenplay Gian Carlo Menotti | |
Based on Amahl and the Night Visitors by Menotti Production company American Broadcasting Company Cast Joyce Simmons, Neil Easton, Neil Warren-Smith, Desmond Patterson, Victor Franklin, Anthony Monopoli Similar The Medium, The Deep Blue Sea, Jo Jo in the Stars, In Saturn's Rings, Love Among the Ruins | ||
Amahl and the Night Visitors is a 1957 Australian TV play. It was a filmed version of the opera Amahl and the Night Visitors by Menotti. The ABC had previously televised Menotti's The Telephone and this was the second opera they broadcast.
It was broadcast live in Melbourne, recorded, then shown in Sydney. It was presented by members of the Elizabethan Theatre Trust's Australian Opera Company and the Victorian Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Joseph Post.
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