Amahl and The Night Visitors - Recordings

Recordings

For several years it was assumed that the original telecast, preserved on kinescope, had been lost, but a surviving copy was found, transferred to video, and is now available at The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television & Radio) and online at the Museum of Broadcast Communications.

There are also several audio recordings available, but the original 1951 production has never been re-broadcast, although bootleg recordings have been made. A kinescope of the 1955 broadcast starring Bill McIver as Amahl was digitized in 2007 and is available commercially on DVD. The 1955 and 1978 productions are the only ones released on video. Cast recordings of both the 1951 and the 1963 productions were recorded by RCA Victor, and the 1951 cast recording was released on compact disc in 1987. The 1963 recording of Amahl was the first recording of the opera made in stereo.