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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.
Kevin Matthew Puts / p ʊ t s / [1] (born January 3, 1972) is an American composer, best known for his opera The Hours and for winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for his first opera Silent Night [2] and a Grammy Award in 2023 for his concerto Contact.
Minnesota Opera. Minnesota Opera is a performance organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.It was founded as the Center Opera Company in 1963 by the Walker Art Center, and is known for premiering such diverse works as Where the Wild Things Are by Oliver Knussen (based on the children's novel by Maurice Sendak) and Frankenstein by Libby Larsen.
He has performed in many leading opera houses both nationally and internationally, including premiering the role of Lieutenant Horstmayer in Kevin Puts and Minnesota Opera's acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize winning Silent Night [1] [2] [3] “I’ve had the new-opera experience that no one gets” Irvin is quoted to say by Opera News, in singing ...
Silent Night, composed by Kevin Puts to a libretto by Mark Campbell, premiered on 12 November 2011 by Minnesota Opera at the Ordway Theater. The libretto is an adaptation of the screenplay for the 2005 film Joyeux Noël. [65] The opera won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music. [66]
In addition to 'The Many Deaths of Laila Starr,' it is commissioning an adaptation of 'Misery.'
Karin Wolverton (born 1974, Roseville, Minnesota) [1] is an American operatic soprano.A graduate of the University of Minnesota, she has performed several roles with the Minnesota Opera, including Antonia in Les contes d'Hoffmann, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Donna Ines in Maria Padilla and both Mimi and Musetta in La bohème among others.
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