Premiere of a New Performing Version with baritone Tobias Greenhalgh as Tom Joad, sopranos Deanna Breiwick as Rosasharn and Katharine Goeldner as Ma Joad.

Premiere of a New Performing Version with baritone Tobias Greenhalgh as Tom Joad, sopranos Deanna Breiwick as Rosasharn and Katharine Goeldner as Ma Joad.

This heartwarming, family-friendly story follows a precocious daughter who struggles to understand her father’s resentment about the holidays and longs for a beautiful Christmas tree like other families have, to “make her house look happy.”

This heartwarming, family-friendly story follows a precocious daughter who struggles to understand her father’s resentment about the holidays and longs for a beautiful Christmas tree like other families have, to “make her house look happy.”

This heartwarming, family-friendly story follows a precocious daughter who struggles to understand her father’s resentment about the holidays and longs for a beautiful Christmas tree like other families have, to “make her house look happy.”

This heartwarming, family-friendly story follows a precocious daughter who struggles to understand her father’s resentment about the holidays and longs for a beautiful Christmas tree like other families have, to “make her house look happy.”

This heartwarming, family-friendly story follows a precocious daughter who struggles to understand her father’s resentment about the holidays and longs for a beautiful Christmas tree like other families have, to “make her house look happy.”

This heartwarming, family-friendly story follows a precocious daughter who struggles to understand her father’s resentment about the holidays and longs for a beautiful Christmas tree like other families have, to “make her house look happy.”

American Lyric Theater presents excerpts from The House Without a Christmas Tree on January 14, 2018 at 8pm at Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center

Travel back in time to the inspired gatherings at 27 rue de Fleurus in Paris, where American expatriates Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas hosted luminaries of art and literature such as Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henri Matisse and Ernest Hemingway. The opera explores themes of love, loss, change and art set throughout two world wars. Presented in partnership with Macomb Center for the Performing Arts.