New Production/Met Premiere
Music by Kevin Puts/Libretto by Mark Campbell

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Senior & Adult packages available online
Student packages – please call the box office

Tickets: (fees not included)
Senior – $23
Adult – $25
Student – $15
Child (8 and under) – FREE

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 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, 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 Villazón, and conducted by Maestro Dalia Stasevska.

Runtime: 3:00
1 Intermission
Sung in English, German, French, Italian, and Latin

*PLEASE NOTE: Jo Ann Kulesza, (Retired) Music Director of Opera Programs at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, will be in the Theatre at 12:00 p.m. for her preview and discussion of the day’s opera. Having been a student of Opera since college, Ms. Kulesza brings a wealth of knowledge and first-hand experience in the genre, fueling her passion for the human voice and all it is capable of.