Saturday, March 20, 2027 | 1 PM | General Admission
Following his smash-hit company debut with The Hours, composer Kevin Puts returns to the Met with his Pulitzer Prize-winning first opera, inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce, when soldiers spontaneously set aside the horrors of the First World War and crossed the trenches to mingle, exchange gifts, and sing carols with the enemy.
A poignant depiction of shared humanity in the most inhumane circumstances, Puts’s grand, cinematic opera – with a libretto by Mark Campbell based on the film Joyeux Noël – has been widely acclaimed since its 2011 premiere, hailed as “an overwhelming emotive experience” by The Guardian.
Silent Night receives an evocative staging by James Robinson that takes the audience directly to the battlefields of the Western Front. The star-studded cast, featuring soprano Elza van den Heever and tenors Ben Bliss and Rolando Villazón, among many others, is conducted by debuting Maestro Dalia Stasevska.
The Met: Live in HD is the Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award–winning series of opera performances transmitted live from the stage of the Met in New York into movie theaters and event spaces worldwide. The series has made the Met the world’s leading provider of alternative cinema content and the only arts institution with an ongoing global series of this scale. When the series launched in 2006, the Met was the first arts company to experiment this way. Since then, the program has expanded, with more than 32 million tickets sold to date, and has been seen in virtually every important world capital from Paris to Cairo, as well as in towns and villages spread across six continents.
This production runs approximately three hours, with one intermission
Part of Arts in the Afternoon, which is sponsored by Dr. James M. & Marcia Merrins, Live at the Met is underwritten with support from Daniel S. Kaufman and Timothy W. Beaver
