the long christmas dinner [hindemith]
[11/2018]
composer | PAUL HINDEMITH
librettist | THORNTON WILDER
music director | CATHERINE O’SHAUGHNESSY
scenic designer | BRAD CALEB LEE
costume designer | STEPHANIE CLUGGISH
lighting designer | JAY KOCH
photographer | VICTOR LeJEUNE
videographer | WWW.HOLLANDMEDIA.FILM
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See the complete archival video of THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER at https://youtu.be/1L2iDTp4p4M.
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The Long Christmas Dinner compresses 90 years of one family’s holiday celebrations into 90 minutes.
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Lucia (Jessie Lyons) is the matriarch of an alcoholic family…
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…along with her husband Roderick (Gabriel Di Gennaro).
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Roderick confronts the reality of his own death.
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Uncle Brandon (Zachary Angus) says goodbye.
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Lucia mourns the death of her husband with her daughter Genevieve (Naomi Brigell).
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Lucia confronts her son Charles…
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…over his marriage to Leonora (Megan Fletcher).
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Charles realizes that death is fast approaching.
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Charles and Leonora’s son Roderick (Thomas Bailey) makes a drunken scene.
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In the opera’s final image, Cousin Ermengarde (Tierra Whetstone) reads a Christmas card from the next generation of the family.