Brolga Theatre, 5 Walker Street, Maryborough, 4650, View Map
Adult $28Friends & MRAC Memebers $24Pens/Snr/Stu $25Child <18 $15This screening includes an interval
Silent Night is 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 with the enemy.
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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 staging by James Robinson that takes the audience directly to the battlefields of the Western Front.
The star-studded cast, featuring soprano Elza van den Heever and tenors Ben Bliss and Rolando Villazón, among many others, is conducted by debuting maestro Dalia Stasevska.
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Silent Night is sung in English with English subtitles.
A screening of the broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera 2026-27 Season in New York.
Duration: 3 hours, including 1 interval.
5 Walker Street , Maryborough 4650