Atlanta Opera Tells Story Of WWI Christmas Truce In ‘Silent Night’

Erhard Rom

“War cannot be described in film, or in theatre, or in opera … you can’t replicate the actual experience. But what you can actually achieve is [to] tell the universal truth about what it is to be a soldier.”

That’s according to Tomer Zvulun, the general and artistic director of the Atlanta Opera. Zvulun identifies with the soldier’s experience because he is a veteran himself, having served as a combat medic in the Israeli army.