Feature Article: Met Premiere of Kevin Puts's Silent Night

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Following the success of The Hours in 2022, composer Kevin Puts returns to the Met on March 8 with Silent Night, his Pulitzer Prize–winning first opera set to a libretto by Mark Campbell, inspired by the extraordinary Christmas truce of World War I. More than a century after the war that was meant to end all wars, Silent Night arrives in a striking new production by James Robinson that offers a sobering reminder of the power of music and human connection—even across the deepest divides.

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Feature Article: New Production of Bellini's La Sonnambula at the Met

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Nadine Sierra stars in one of opera’s ultimate soprano roles, the sleepwalker at the heart of Bellini’s La Sonnambula, opposite tenor Xabier Anduaga as her fickle fiancé. In his first Met production, Rolando Villazón—the renowned singer who has embarked on a parallel career as a stage director—brings new vigor to Bellini’s poignant drama, probing the psyche of the opera’s heroine and the suffocating community she can escape only in her dreams.

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Feature Article: Met Premiere of Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick

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Following his Opening Night debut last season with Dead Man Walking, composer Jake Heggie returns to the Met on March 3 for the company premiere of Moby-Dick, his grand adaptation of Herman Melville’s heaven-storming classic. With a libretto by Gene Scheer and an enveloping staging by Leonard Foglia, Heggie’s opera welcomes audiences aboard the Pequod to experience literature’s immortal search for the white whale—and for answers to life’s deepest questions.

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Feature Article: Met Premiere of John Adams's El Niño

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On April 23, eminent American composer John Adams returns to the Met for the company premiere of El Niño, his dramatic reimagining of the Nativity story. The vibrant new production marks the Met debut of Lileana Blain-Cruz, one of the theater world’s most daring young directors, and also sets the stage for the debuts of three fierce champions of new music: distinguished maestro Marin Alsop on the podium and soprano Julia Bullock (pictured above) and bass-baritone Davóne Tines, who join mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges to form a powerful trio of next-generation stars.

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