WORLD PREMIERE!

Letters That You Will Not Get: Women’s Voices From the Great War, by composer Kirsten Volness and co-librettists Kate Holland and Susan Werbe, is a new opera that gives voice to American, British, European, Asian, African and Caribbean women affected by WWI through a series of vignettes that share their responses to the war—from enthusiasm to resignation; support to opposition; the war’s beginning to its end. Combining powerful contemporary music with excerpts from women’s writings on both sides of the conflict, Letters tells the story of the Great War as experienced by the women who lived through it. Directed by Kate Bergstrom. Music direction by Mila Henry. In English. Starring Sarah Beckham-Turner, Tharanga Goonetilleke, Tesia Kwarteng, Maria Maxfield, Caitlin McKechney, and Jessica Sandidge.