LIVE TRANSMISSION
One of the 21st century’s most powerful new works, this opera draws
inspiration from 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.
Composer Kevin Puts (The Hours) returns to the Met with his Pulitzer
Prize–winning first opera, hailed as “an overwhelming emotive
experience” (The Guardian), in an evocative staging by director
James Robinson (Champion, Porgy and Bess) that takes the audience
directly to the battlefields of the Western Front.
CAST Elza van den Heever, Ben Bliss, Rolando Villazón, Ben Reisinger,
Mattia Olivieri, Justin Austin, Ryan McKinny, Kyle Ketelsen
CONDUCTOR Dalia Stasevska
DIRECTOR James Robinson
ESTIMATED RUNTIME 3 hours, with one intermission
