A Benefit For Camp Kinderland

Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/16/2014
4:00 pm

Location
Cinema Arts Centre

Category(ies)

• Health and Wellness
• Lecture

How I Got Left at the Opera:A Boy’s Journey into Politics with Mozart, Wagner and Verdi 

Opera expert Fred Plotkin gives a multi-media lecture about how operas can fire the imagination and become the soundtrack for people who want to fight the good fight. “How I Got Left at the Opera: A Boy’s Journey into Politics with Mozart, Wagner and Verdi” is a fundraiser for Camp Kinderland, the summer camp with a conscience, where Plotkin was a camper from 1961 to 1971.  A post-event intimate dinner and q & a with Fred Plotkin follows at Campari Ristorante.

$20 Members / $30 Public / Tickets can be purchased online, www.CinemaArtsCentre.org at the box office during theater hours or by calling Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006

Event + Intimate Dinner with Fred Plotkin: $60 Members / $70 Public (limited to 20 people)

http://www.cinemaartscentre.org/event/how-i-got-left-at-the-opera-a-boys-journey-into-politics-with-mozart-wagner-and-verdi/

Fred Plotkin, one of the world’s leading opera experts, grew up in New York in an era when rock, soul, blues, folk and Broadway music were in the air at the same time as classical music and opera. A city kid such as Fred could hear Zero Mostel one night, Pete Seeger the next, and Leonard Bernstein the next. In this period of anti-war protests, civil rights marches, and the rise of environmentalism and the women’s movement, music served to inspire activism. While most people found inspiration in popular music, Fred encountered these ideals in opera.

Join Fred Plotkin to discover how operas such as Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Beethoven’s Fidelio, Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Verdi’s Don Carlo and Giordano’s Andrea Chénier can fire the imagination and become the soundtrack for people who want to fight the good fight. In a presentation full of music and drama, Fred will also explore why opera appeals to people across the political spectrum and get them talking.
Approx. Running Time: 90 minutes 

About Camp Kinderland: Camp Kinderland is a sleep-away camp for children ages 8 to 16 located in the Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts; a place where they can be themselves, feel at ease, and work and play in an atmosphere of cooperation and trust. At Kinderland campers encounter ideals of social justice and peace. Here, it is okay to think, to care, to question and to act. Check out www.CampKinderland.org  for more information.

About Fred Plotkin: Fred Plotkin is the author of Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera, the standard text in America for opera education. He writes the Operavore blog at wqxr.org, the Web site of New York’s classical music radio station. He has worked for many opera companies, including La Scala and the Metropolitan, and has lectured on opera around the world. He was a happy camper at CampKinderland from 1962 to 1971.