Amahl and the Night Visitors (1957 film)

Amahl and the Night Visitors
Based onAmahl and the Night Visitors by Menotti
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducerChristopher Muir
Production companyABC
Original release
Release25 December 1957 (1957-12-25)[1]

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.[2][3][4]

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.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "TELEVISION PARADE". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 25, no. 29. 25 December 1957. p. 12. Retrieved 2 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "ABC Television Opera Productions". Archived from the original on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  3. ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  4. ^ "Adelaide Boy Will be Amahl". The Age. 12 December 1957. p. 12.
  5. ^ "TELEVISION PARADE". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 25, no. [?]. 27 November 1957. p. 12. Retrieved 2 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.


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