It is really nice. The field house, with its dirt floor, batting cage, and other sports equipment, is an unusual place for an opera. But Calianno's opera is unusual to start with. To most people the word opera evokes period costumes, impressive vocalists, and a tragic or comedic plot line. The opera consists of musicians playing cellos, flutes, basses, synthesizers, and guitars.
Voices mingle with the instrumentation to make the work richer.
Despite its unorthodox presentation, advent days maintains the basic premise of an opera. It tells a story through music. But instead of deriving its plot from conflicts between people, this opera's story comes from the conflicts within them. Calianno's inspiration for the opera came from the biblical story of Jesus on Gethsemane. In the story Jesus, having shared the Last Supper with his disciples, prays alone at Gethsemane.