Minnesota Opera/Lewis - Kevin Puts: Silent Night (Opera in two acts, Libretto by Mark Campbell)

Kevin Puts is one of America�s most exciting and important composers. His first opera, Silent Night, with a libretto by Mark Campbell, was commissioned by Minnesota Opera. It premiered in 2011 and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. A work of profound and sweeping emotional power, it has since entered the modern operatic repertoire with remarkable speed, enjoying worldwide performances. The opera is based on Christian Carion�s screenplay for the 2005 French war film Joyeux No�l, and its fictionalised subject is the series of Christmas truces on the Western Front in 1914.