Metropolitan Opera: Silent Night

KEVIN PUTS | LIBRETTO BY MARK CAMPBELL
Silent Night
MET PREMIEREFollowing his smash-hit company debut with The Hours, composer Kevin Puts returns to the Met with his Pulitzer Prizewinning opera, inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce. A poignant depiction of shared humanity in the most inhumane circumstances, Putss grand, cinematic operawith a libretto in English, French, and German by Mark Campbellhas been widely acclaimed since its 2011 premiere, hailed as an overwhelming emotive experience by The Guardian. The evocative staging by James Robinson takes the audience directly to the battlefields of the Western Front with a star-studded cast, featuring soprano Elza van den Heever and tenors Ben Bliss and Rolando Villazn, conducted by Maestro Dalia Stasevska live from the Met to cinemas worldwide.3h inc Interval