SILENT NIGHT:
THE STORY OF THE WORLD WAR I CHRISTMAS TRUCE
BY
STANLEY WEINTRAUB
SIGNED BY STANLEY WEINTRAUB ON THE TITLE PAGE (IN 2013)
AND
MARK CAMPBELL AND KEVIN PUTS ON THE EPIGRAPH PAGE
(KEVIN PUTS WON THE 2012 PULITZER PRIZE IN MUSIC FOR SILENT NIGHT THE OPERA)
“Silent Night,” the opera by Kevin Puts that won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2012, will have its television premiere on Dec. 13, when PBS broadcasts a performance by the Minnesota Opera, recorded during the work’s world-premiere run in 2011.
Mr. Puts based his opera on Christian Carion’s screenplay for the 2005 film “Joyeux Nöel,” which is based on an incident during World War I in which Scottish, French and German soldiers negotiate a Christmas truce and share their provisions and personal stories. The opera’s libretto, by Mark Campbell, is in English, German, French, Italian and Latin. FROM ARTSBEAT/NEW YORK TIMES
NEW YORK: FREE PRESS, 2001
FIRST EDITION/ FIRST PRINTING
HARDCOVER
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SEVERAL FLAWS, BUT A SIGNED FIRST PRINTING THAT HAS BEEN GENTLY READ.
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