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<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in"> <font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt">Following his smash-hit company debut with </font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt"><i>The Hours</i></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt">, composer Kevin Puts returns to the Met with his Pulitzer Prize–winning opera, inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce. A poignant depiction of shared humanity in the most inhumane circumstances, Puts’s grand, cinematic opera—with a libretto in English, French, and German by Mark Campbell—has been widely acclaimed since its 2011 premiere, hailed as “an overwhelming emotive experience” by </font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt"><i>The Guardian</i></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt">. The evocative staging by James Robinson takes the audience directly to the battlefields of the Western Front with a star-studded cast, featuring soprano Elza van den Heever and tenors Ben Bliss and Rolando Villazón, conducted by Maestro Dalia Stasevska live from the Met to cinemas worldwide.</font></font></font></p>OperaPT4H24MNot Rated2027-04-03USit
Elza van den Heever
Ben Bliss
Rolando Villazón
Ben Reisinger
Mattia Olivieri
Justin Austin
Ryan McKinny
Kyle Ketelsen
Dalia Stasevska
James Robinson
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Showtimes

April 3, 12:00 pm

April 7, 1:00 pm

The Lyric