I've never seen Amahl, but by coincidence my parents were talking about it yesterday. They did not realize it was the 50th anniversary; they just wondered why it wasn't played on TV anymore. They also wondered why it had never been re-recorded (is that the right term?) for TV. Apparently it has been out of fashion for some time now. I've never seen it. I thought maybe it was because it's not PC (referring to Amahl as "crippled" and then curing him at the end - it would probably spark a disability rights outcry) but Janos said it's because it foreshadowed Andrew Lloyd Webber. Mary