MET OPERA: Puts' Silent Night
The Met: Live in HD is your chance to join thousands of others in theatres and cinemas around the world, to experience one of the world's most famous opera companies livestream direct from New York. Here at Salt Spring, not only do you get to experience ArtSpring's exceptional surround sound, but also our Quiche intermissions - which have helped make Saturday morning opera a Salt Spring institution. In addition to the opera itself, there are live interviews with the stars, and behind-the scenes live backstage footage. Following his smash-hit company debut with The Hours , composer Kevin Puts returns to the Met with his Pulitzer Prize–winning first opera, inspired by 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. A poignant depiction of shared humanity in the most inhumane circumstances, Puts’s grand, cinematic opera—with a libretto by Mark Campbell based on the film Joyeux Noël —has been widely acclaimed since its 2011 premiere, hailed as “an overwhelming emotive experience” by The Guardian . Silent Night receives an evocative st ($15 – $25)
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