Holiday Shows Truce of Carols & Amahl and the Night Visitors from Mission City Opera
Mission City Center for Performing Arts (3250 Monroe Street Santa Clara, CA 95051)
- Full Price:
- $46.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $23.00*
* Additional fees apply.
All offers for Truce of Carols and Amahl and the Night Visitors have expired.
The last date listed for Truce of Carols and Amahl and the Night Visitors was Sunday December 6, 2009 / 3:00pm.
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Goldstar Member Tips
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ciara on Where to Park
Free parking in the lot in front of the Center
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ciara on What to Wear
Dress ranged from somewhat dressy to very casual (jeans)
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roberta on Where to Eat
Good coffee and cookies and very reasonably priced
Goldstar Member Reviews
Rimi
This was not exactly a high quality opera in my opinion. It was rather funny and the music was nice but I could barely hear anyone in A Truce of Carols. The story was ok. The 2nd Opera was much better.Written on Dec 09 2009
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Marie
The music was gorgeous, the singers were very good, the story was beautiful and brought tears to my eyes.Written on Dec 07 2009
I felt the production needed a little tweaking and polishing--to be expected in such a new production.
I hope to see this opera becoming a part of every Christmas season.
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Ann Marotta
Truce of Carols was a new production. I thought it was a little long but once you got past the beginning which was a little slow the story was wonderful and so was the music. Hope this becomes a Christmas tradition and is peformed each year like Amahl. And I loved Amahl - I remembered all the songs from when I heard the recording as a child and I thought it was well done and the little boy was excellent.Written on Dec 07 2009
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roberta
Truce of Carols dragged on way too long in the middle. Some of the singers were way too rigid in their stage presence. The blending voices of the two female singers were beautiful and their range was excellent and they were the best of all. The WWI war outfits were certainly not of the times and the background could have used some WWI photos. Stage way too bare. Amahl was a cute show, and the costumes were beautiful and it was of the right duration. Again, stage was way too barren and the door could have looked more like the times instead of a modern door.Written on Dec 07 2009
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More Information About Truce of Carols and Amahl and the Night Visitors
Website
http://www.missioncityopera.org/
Description
Truce of Carols is a new opera based on the poignant, true story of Christmas Eve 1914, in the Belgian trenches of WWI. Michael Taylor has created a vibrantly beautiful new opera that envelopes us in that moment of time.
Amahl and the Night Visitors features 10 year old Ryan Nelson as the title character, Amahl; Margaret Lisi as his mother; and Eric Coyne, Martin Bell, and Norm DeVol as the "Visitors" in this holiday tale of a young boy's stories that become a reality.
The story of Truce began on Christmas Eve 1914, when German troops began decorating the area around their trenches in the region of Ypres, Belgium, for Christmas. They placed candles on trees then continued the celebration by singing Christmas carols, most notably Stille Nacht (Silent Night). The British troops in the trenches across from them responded by singing English carols. The two sides shouted Christmas greetings to each other. Soon thereafter, visits across the "No Man's Land" took place where the soldiers exchanged small gifts of whisky, jam, cigars, chocolate, sometimes addresses, and drank together. The artillery in the region fell silent that night. The truce also allowed burial parties a breathing spell to retrieve recently-fallen soldiers and bring them back behind their own lines. Proper burials took place as soldiers from both sides mourned the dead together and paid their respects, in spite of opposition at higher levels of the military. The truce spread to other areas of the lines, and there are many stories of soccer matches between the opposing forces. It lasted every where through Christmas night and in some areas, continued until New Year's Day.
Truce of Carols artists include: Adam Flowers, Benjamin Cohen, C.A. Jordan, Cliff Romig, Dan Galpin, Eric Coyne, Erin Lahm, Jeffrey Taylor, Norm DeVol, Robert Snedegar, and Sascha Joggerst, the Mission City Opera Orchestra and of course Michael Taylor.
About the Ticket Supplier: Mission City Opera
Mission City Opera is, a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization founded in 1996, dedicated to presenting professional performances of operatic works at affordable prices in intimate productions in English and original languages. MCO is committed to the finest entertainment, to the education of youth and adults in this performing art, to instill a lasting love for opera in the participants and audience thereby to secure the continuation of opera for generations to come.