Synchromy Presents Minute to Midnight – a Comic Opera

Next date: Sunday, June 02, 2024 | 02:00 PM to 04:00 PM

Minute to Midnight, a comedic opera, takes audiences inside a surreal portrait of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Inside a fictionalized Situation Room, we witness the tensions between John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro, and Nikita Khrushchev. In reality, these leaders’ transmissions took hours to reach each other. Minute to Midnight compresses these conversations, putting the characters in each other’s presence. The fictionalized Situation Room heightens the absurdity of this conflict and war while grounding the opera in a contemporary conversation: how can we continue to have dialogue through difference and find common ground today?

PROGRAM

Dante De Silva: Minute to Midnight

Alan Olejniczak, librettist

Emily Gallagher, soprano (JFK)

Chloé Vaught, soprano (Castro)

Amy Fogerson, alto (Khrushchev)

Instrumental ensemble: Timothy Loo (cello), Jordan Curcuruto (percussion), Katie Eikam (percussion), Cathy Miller (keyboard), Andreas Apostolou (keyboard)

Tickets are free, but registration is required.

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Location

Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Blvd., Culver City, 90230, View Map