Silent Night
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The Great War rages. It is 1914 and Europe has descended into darkness. On Christmas Eve, British, French, and German soldiers agree to a truce across the trenches. On that silent night, 100,000 soldiers briefly put aside their weapons and met one another face-to-face in no-man’s-land. Based on inspiring true events, this Pulitzer Prize-winning opera explores the human cost of war, and the ultimate price of peace. Sung in five languages with a sumptuous score, this global story is a modern masterpiece not to be missed.
A MARLU ALLAN AND SCOTT STALLARD MODERN MASTERWORK
Production made possible by:
Marlys A. Beider, Dr. Rex and Arlyn Brewster, the National Endowment for the Arts, Marlu Allan and Scott Stallard, SRP, the J.W. Kieckhefer Foundation, Margaret T. Morris Foundation, Dr. Judith G. Wolf, Rosellen and Harry Papp, Anne Snodgrass, Sharon Landis, James and Patience Huntwork, Bankers Trust, and an anonymous donor.
Silent Night photography courtesy of:
Tim Trumble
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Join Arizona Opera as we screen the highly-regarded film Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas), which is based on the same true events that inspired the writing of this year's Modern Masterwork opera, Silent Night.
Join Arizona Opera as we screen the highly-regarded film Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas), which is based on the same true events that inspired the writing of this year's Modern Masterwork opera, Silent Night.
Phoenix
Arizona Opera is proud to present baritone John Brancy and pianist Peter Dugan in a moving recital commemorating WWI. In A Silent Night: A WWI Memorial in Song, we pay hommage to the centennial of the end of this terrible conflict through performance of works by composers who lived through, fought in, and died in the Great War.
Tucson
Arizona Opera is proud to present baritone John Brancy and pianist Peter Dugan in a moving recital commemorating WWI. In A Silent Night: A WWI Memorial in Song, we pay hommage to the centennial of the end of this terrible conflict through performance of works by composers who lived through, fought in, and died in the Great War.
Do you struggle to find the beauty in 21st-century opera? Or perhaps you want to find out how we went from Puccini’s romanticism to Philip Glass’s atonalism in less than 50 years? Arizona Opera invites you to an informative exploration filled with guided listening and discussion of opera in the past century led by Metropolitan Opera Guild lecturer, Naomi Barrettara.
Do you struggle to find the beauty in 21st-century opera? Or perhaps you want to find out how we went from Puccini’s romanticism to Philip Glass’s atonalism in less than 50 years? Arizona Opera invites you to an informative exploration filled with guided listening and discussion of opera in the past century led by Metropolitan Opera Guild lecturer, Naomi Barrettara.
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Silent Night Dress Rehersal
