Composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera—based on a surprising Christmas truce during World War I—can stand on its own anytime of the year. Evoking different national styles from simple folk tunes to magnificently orchestrated solo and choral pieces, the score captures the energy of battle-hardened soldiers and the vivid experience of peace.
Join Fight Director Casey Kaleba an hour before each performance in his preshow talk, "Sopranos, Swords, and Snipers: Staging Violence at The Barns." Kaleba will give a quick historical introduction to the piece and share the process of transforming tiny stage directions into battles, brawls, and bravos.
Please be advised, this production contains realistic depictions of gun violence, and audible gunshots. Sung in English, German, French, Italian, and Latin with English captions.
Conductor: Geoffrey McDonald
Directors: Tonya and Ryan McKinny
Scenic Design: Lawrence Moten
Costume Design: Lynly Saunders
Lighting Design: Colin K. Bills
Video Design: Adam Larsen
Wig & Makeup Design: Anne Nesmith
Principal Coach: Bin Yu Sanford
Diction: Jocelyn Dueck
Chorus Master/Pianist: Alex Munger
Rehearsal Pianist: Manuel Arellano
Supertitles: Ye In Kwak
Assistant Director (Fellow): Haley Stamats
Production Stage Manager: Savannah Valigura
Assistant Stage Manager: Diane Lin
The German Side
Anna Sᴓrensen: Keely Futterer
Nikolaus Sprink: Ricardo Garcia
Lieutenant Horstmayer: Andrew Gilstrap
Kronprinz, son of Kaiser Wilhelm II: Demetrious Sampson Jr.
The Scottish Side
Jonathan Dale: Martin Luther Clark
William Dale: Kyle White
Father Palmer: Wm Clay Thompson
Lieutenant Gordon: Ryan Wolfe
The British Major: Joseph Calzada*
The French Side
Lieutenant Audebert: Jacob Scharfman
Ponchel: Charles H. Eaton
The General: Le Bu
Madeleine: Tivoli Treloar*
*Studio Artist