Opera Review: Silent Night

This Wexford Festival Opera production was not a typical exhumation of a buried historical gem, but a European premiere of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning opera by American composer-and-librettist team, Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell.

Silent Night, based on the 2005 film Joyeux Noel, and on the real-life Christmas Eve truce in the trenches of WWI, chimed perfectly with the spirit of the commemoration of that war’s centenary.