{"id":7772,"date":"2017-03-11T10:22:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T14:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=7772"},"modified":"2017-03-11T10:26:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T14:26:01","slug":"another-brick-in-the-wall-opera-premieres-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2017\/03\/another-brick-in-the-wall-opera-premieres-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Another Brick in the Wall&#8221; opera premieres tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UoxG9aqlngg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al<\/strong> premieres &#8220;Another Brick in the Wall&#8221; tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The opera, based on <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong>&#8216;s 1979 album &#8220;The Wall&#8221; with libretto by <strong>Roger Waters<\/strong>, opens tonight at Place Des Arts in Montreal for a 10-night run.<\/p>\n<p>Clocking in at two hours, the show is sung in English with English and French subtitles provided.<\/p>\n<p>A one-hour &#8220;pre-opera&#8221; precedes the show. Hosted by a musicologist, the pre-event will help explain the history, libretto, artists and symbols of the production.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers tell us there&#8217;s &#8220;<span lang=\"EN-CA\">a very good chance&#8221; Waters will attend tonight&#8217;s opening performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pre-opera begins at 6:30 ET, with curtain at 7:30. At time of this writing it appears there is exactly one ticket still available, for $193.75.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we&#8217;ll post a series of photos from the production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al premieres &#8220;Another Brick in the Wall&#8221; tonight. The opera, based on Pink Floyd&#8216;s 1979 album &#8220;The Wall&#8221; with libretto by Roger Waters, opens tonight at Place Des Arts in Montreal for a 10-night run. Clocking in at two hours, the show is sung in English with English and French subtitles provided. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7775,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772\/revisions\/7775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}