METLive: Silent Night (Cert TBC)

Tbc mins, 1 interval

Composer Kevin Puts returns to the Met with his Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce. A poignant depiction of shared humanity in the most inhumane circumstances, Puts’s grand, cinematic opera – with a libretto in English, French and German by Mark Campbell – has been widely acclaimed since its 2011 premiere. 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 Villazón, conducted by Maestro Dalia Stasevska.