JOSHUA JEREMIAH baritone
Silent night
Recorded live with the Minnesota Opera
Kevin Puts is one of America’s most exciting and important composers. His first opera, Silent Night, with a libretto by Mark Campbell, was commissioned by Minnesota Opera. It premiered in 2011 and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. A profound work and sweeping with emotional power, it has since entered the modern operatic repertoire with remarkable speed, enjoying world-wide performances. The opera is based on Christian Carion’s screen-play for the 2005 French war film Joyeux Noël, and its fictionalized subject is the series of Christmas truces on the Western Front in 1914.
GRAMMY Nominee: Best Opera Recording
VOLPONE
An opera in two acts unfaithfully based on Ben Jonson's comedy recorded live at The Barns at Wolf Trap.
Volpone (“The Fox”), is a bright, biting comedy inspired by the classic Ben Jonson play of the same name. The wealthy Volpone feigns mortal illness in order to con a group of his so-called “friends” into believing that each of them will inherit his fortune. The lengths to which they go in the name of greed made for an evening of high humor sung to a witty and tuneful score by John Musto with libretto by Mark Campbell. The cast featured an exciting group of singers, including several former members of the Wolf Trap Opera.