Silent Night

Met Premiere

Music by Kevin Puts | Libretto by Mark Campbell

Conductor ~ Dalia Stasevska

Anna Sørensen ~ Elza van den Heever
Nikolaus Sprink ~ Ben Bliss
Ponchel ~ Rolando Villazón
Jonathan Dale~  Ben Reisinger
Lt. Audebert ~ Mattia Olivieri
Lt. Gordon ~ Justin Austin
Lt. Horstmayer ~ Ryan McKinny
Father Palmer ~ Kyle Ketelsen

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, conducted by
Maestro Dalia Stasevska live from the Met to cinemas worldwide.