The Met Live in HD: Silent Night (Puts) – Encore
FirstLight Home Care Classical Series
Tuesday, March 30
12:55pm
The Met: Live in HD series at Ridgefield Playhouse is made possible by the generous support of Liz & Steven Goldstone and Whistle Stop Bakery.
The Met: Live in HD is the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of opera performances transmitted live from the stage of the Met into movie theaters worldwide. Experience extraordinary opera performances live from the Metropolitan Opera in your local cinema.
The Met Live in HD: Silent Night (Puts) – Encore
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
