Opera has been in residence in iTunes for quite some time now, but never before has an entire opera graced my ears, nor have I ever seen one live. Until last Thursday evening and the world premiere of Silent Night, an operatic rendition of the 2005 movie Joyeux Noel. It relates the tale of British, French, and German soldiers during World War I who disobeyed orders and spent the holiday not killing each other. The experience was, in a word, big. The staging, production and vocals were brilliant. There were a couple issues with the overall storytelling, but then again I’m pretty nit picky about these types of things. Also, it did not end with a fat woman singing and that was a bit of a disappointment. Still… a tremendous and amazing performance overall.
Now I got to see the show in exchange for drawing and blogging about it so let’s take a look at how that went.
My initial strategy was to keep pace with the show on a sketch per scene basis (seen above). It went well at first but with the constant changes in scenery and cast my hand began to hate me a bit. And so…
I decided to go the lazy road, break out the brush pens and chisel markers, pick a moment and draw it as big and slowly as possible. The hand was grateful and I got to pay more attention to the show.
One thing is for sure: I can’t wait for the next time I get to go do this!
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