Following his smash-hit company debut with The Hours, composer Kevin Puts returns to the Met with his Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas
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A poignant depiction of shared humanity in the most inhumane circumstances, Puts’ grand, cinematic opera (with a libretto in English, French, and German by Mark Campbell) has been widely acclaimed since its 2011 premiere, hailed as “an overwhelming emotive experience” – 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 Villazón, conducted by Maestro Dalia Stasevska.