5Q: All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
“5Q” is an online-only column featuring five questions about stage productions in the Metro Area with a special focus on the GLBTQ community’s relationship to the production. Periodically, “5Q” will take the form of an interview with actors, directors, writers, etc. to shed some light on the production process.
One hundred years ago this month, the battle trenches of the Western Front witnessed a great upwelling of common humanity. In a series of spontaneous cease-fires that became known collectively as the “Christmas truce,” Allied and German soldiers came up over the top of their trenches and marked the holiday together sharing gifts, singing carols and even organizing an impromptu soccer match.
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Rising opera star from Edina comes home for A Holiday Special COVID and a Christmas special bring rising opera singer Liv Redpath home.
By Rob Hubbard Special to the Star Tribune December 18, 2020 10:22am Text size Copy shortlink:
Gretel got her.
Liv Redpath was an Edina eighth-grader when that fairy-tale character who s seduced by a witch s giant gingerbread house convinced her to become an opera singer. She sang the role at age 14 in a production of Engelbert Humperdinck s Hansel and Gretel staged by Minnesota Opera s youth program, Project Opera. After I sang that Gretel, I was totally hooked, she said last week.
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Orchestra aims to reflect Minnesota s diversity in its virtual Midwinter Gathering The Minnesota Orchestra embraces a wider circle for its first-ever virtual holiday celebration.
By Rob Hubbard Special to the Star Tribune December 15, 2020 10:11am Text size Copy shortlink:
Gathering: It s a need many of us feel between Thanksgiving and New Year s, to reunite with family and old friends, share laughs and stories, and catch up on changes in our lives.
The past three Decembers, Twin Cities storyteller Kevin Kling mined memories of childhood gatherings for the Minnesota Orchestra s holiday show a nostalgic amalgam of stories, scenes, songs and orchestral interludes created under the guidance o
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Minnesota Orchestra will live stream concerts through March
In-person concerts at Orchestra Hall through March have been canceled or postponed.
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The Minnesota Orchestra will continue to live stream its concerts through March 2021, with all in-person performances canceled or postponed.
The orchestra announced on Friday a revised concert calendar for January-March 2021, which will offer four Friday night concerts designed for at-home viewing that will air live on TV, radio and available to stream online.
Music Director Osmo Vänskä will conduct three of the four concerts (Jan. 15, Jan. 29 and March 19), while guest conductor Juraj Valčuha will lead the Orchestra on March 5.
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