Holiday Shows Truce of Carols & Amahl and the Night Visitors from Mission City Opera
Mission City Center for Performing Arts (Santa Clara, CA)
Truce of Carols is a new opera based on true accounts of Christmas Eve, 1914, in the Belgian trenches of World War I, where opposing armies exchanged gifts and sang carols to each other across the battlefield. Amahl and the Night Visitors follows, telling the holiday tale of a young boy's stories that become reality.
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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.
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.
