{"id":65735,"date":"2020-01-06T14:08:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T19:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=65735"},"modified":"2020-01-06T14:08:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T19:08:36","slug":"an-evening-with-ludwig-van-come-watch-an-opera-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2020\/01\/06\/an-evening-with-ludwig-van-come-watch-an-opera-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening With Ludwig Van \u2013 Come Watch An Opera With Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Do you hear that? That\u2019s the sound of a special invite just for you.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65737\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/LV-event-Madama-Butterfly-TORONTO-LV-version.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/LV-event-Madama-Butterfly-TORONTO-LV-version.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/LV-event-Madama-Butterfly-TORONTO-LV-version-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/LV-event-Madama-Butterfly-TORONTO-LV-version-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/LV-event-Madama-Butterfly-TORONTO-LV-version-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BREAKING NEWS: It\u2019s 2020, and we\u2019ve spent the last few weeks reflecting on how lucky we are for the 100,000+ monthly classical music lovers who have made Ludwig Van Canada\u2019s largest classical music publication.<\/p>\n<p>We want to thank you for it \u2014\u00a0but it has to be sincere.<\/p>\n<p>Should we send you a balloon? A piece of Mozart cake?<\/p>\n<p>We know you like opera, and a night out with good company would be fun.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is clear \u2013 let\u2019s meet-up and watch an opera together.<\/p>\n<p>Our very first<strong> An Evening with Ludwig Van<\/strong> will take place in both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/exclusive-screening-the-met-live-in-hd-madama-butterfly-registration-87979401759\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/billets-projection-exclusive-le-met-live-en-hd-madama-butterfly-de-puccini-en-rediffusion-88502919615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montr\u00e9al<\/a> on Saturday, January 25 at 5 pm. This is a chance for you to see an opera for free alongside good friends who love classical music as much as you do<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s why attending will be worth your while:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1: You\u2019ll get to see an exclusive Encore screening of the 2020 Metropolitan Opera production of Madama Butterfly by Puccini. You\u2019ll get to see Hui He star as Cio-Cio-San, the devoted geisha who gives everything for the American naval officer Pinkerton, sung by Bruce Sledge. Elizabeth DeShong is her devoted companion Suzuki, and Paulo Szot singing Sharpless. Pier Giorgio Morandi conducts Anthony Minghella\u2019s beautiful, atmospheric production.<\/p>\n<p>2: You\u2019ll be able to meet the faces behind the pens, and meet each other too.<\/p>\n<p>3: It\u2019s free. (you\u2019ll just need to pay for your popcorn)<\/p>\n<p>Every one of you is a little bit of wind in the sails of our pirate ship. From me and the rest of the team at Ludwig Van &#8211; thank you, thank you, thank you.<\/p>\n<p>See you on the 25<sup>th<\/sup>!<\/p>\n<p>RSVP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/exclusive-screening-the-met-live-in-hd-madama-butterfly-registration-87979401759\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Vincent, Publisher of Ludwig van<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>#LUDWIGVAN<\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Want more updates on classical music and opera news and reviews? Follow us\u00a0on\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LudwigVanToronto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Facebook<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/em><em>,\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ludwigvantoronto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>Instagram<\/b><\/a><\/em><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><em>or\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LudwigVanTO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>Twitter<\/b><\/a><\/em><\/span><em>\u00a0for all the latest.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you hear that? That\u2019s the sound of a special invite just for you: a free ticket to see the Met Opera&#8217;s Madama Butterfly, Live in HD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":65737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33451,5845,33967,63],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[26350,23343,6767,6715,31435,12665,9880,9875,28210,6616,9913,6886,8214,10629,19957,9881],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/LV-event-Madama-Butterfly-TORONTO-LV-version.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-h6f","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65735"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65775,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65735\/revisions\/65775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65735"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=65735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}