Christmas Eve, during the first year of World War I, soldiers from opposite sides put aside their differences and the war they were fighting to spend time together, sharing their provisions and stories with each other, to celebrate Christmas. This beautiful, true story was told in the movie Joyeux Noël in 2005, and then adapted into an opera, Silent Night , in 2011 by librettist Mark Campbell and composer Kevin Puts, who as an alum of the Eastman School of Music. Silent Night played to sold out