Silent Night: Met Opera Live

A live cinema broadcast of Kevin Puts's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Silent Night, inspired by the 1914 Christmas truce, screened at Wells Maltings.

Wells Maltings screens a live satellite broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera of Kevin Puts's Silent Night, a Pulitzer Prize-winning opera with a libretto by Mark Campbell in English, French and German. Inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce, the opera depicts shared humanity on the Western Front in James Robinson's staging. The cast features soprano Elza van den Heever and tenors Ben Bliss and Rolando Villazón, conducted by Dalia Stasevska; the running time is 180 minutes including one interval.