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Silent Night (opera)
''Silent Night'' is an opera by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell. As ''Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts'' the work had its world premiere at the Ordway Theater, Saint Paul, Minnesota, on November 12, 2011 under the directorship and dramaturgy of Eric Simonson. As ''Silent Night'', the opera had its East Coast premiere at the Philadelphia Academy of Music on February 8, 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Opera Philadelphia )〕 It premiered in the Southwest at Bass Performance Hall with Fort Worth Opera on May 4, 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fort Worth Opera )〕 The European premiere took place on October 24, 2014, at the Wexford Festival Opera in Ireland.〔Telegraph Media Group, John Allison: "(''Silent Night'', Wexford Festival Opera )", review, "real conviction"; October 28, 2014〕 The opera won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Music )〕
==Background==
The libretto is based on the multilingual screenplay by Christian Carion for the 2005 film ''Joyeux Noël'' that tells a story during the historical short-lived spontaneous 1914 Christmas truce between enemy combatants in World War I. According to characters and situations, the libretto is mostly sung in English, French and German, but also some Italian and Latin.
The opera was commissioned by Minnesota Opera as part of its New Works Initiative in co-production with Opera Philadelphia. For Kevin Puts, it was his first opera, while Mark Campbell had written librettos before.
Campbell remarked that the core message of the opera is "'War is not sustainable when you come to know your enemy as a person.' When you see that the person you might be shooting has a child or a wife or has this life at home and they’re just not the enemy, then it becomes very difficult if not impossible to sustain war."〔
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