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Operas Inspired by War


Wozzeck

Composer: Alban Berg
Libretto: Based on the drama Woyzeck by Georg Büchner
Year: 1925
The opera's main character, Wozzeck, is a common soldier who kills his mistress and himself after imaging that she has been unfaithful to him. This tragic story is an operatic take on the devastating effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and shell shock post World War I.

War Requiem

Composer: Benjamin Britten
Libretto: The text is a combination of traditional liturgical requiem text and poetry by Wilfred Owen
Year: 1962
Britten's War Requiem is a non-liturgical requiem that was written for the re-consecration of the Coventry Cathedral in England, which was destroyed in bombing raids in World War II. This musical work is a modern-day masterpiece that poignantly combines sacred text from the Catholic Mass for the Dead, and personal poetry by a soldier in World War I.

Glory Denied

Composer: Tom Cipullo
Libretto: Based on the book by Tom Philpott
Year: 2007
This opera tells the true story of Colonel Jim Thompson, who spends a decade as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. He returns to America to find his country, and his family, changed beyond recognition.

Silent Night

Composer: Kevin Puts
Libretto: Adapted by Mark Campbell from the screenplay Joyeux Noël by Christian Carion
Year: 2011
This opera tells the story of a truce that was made between enemy combatants on Christmas Eve 1914, during World War I.  The troops exchanged provisions across enemy lines and agreed to a cease-fire to bury their fallen comrades properly on the eve of the holiday. This touching story poignantly highlights the shared humanity of the soldiers, all far from home.

Two Women

​Composer: Marco Tutino
Libretto: Based on the Italian novel by Alberto Moravia
Year: 2015
This opera follows the story of a woman and her daughter in Italy during World War II. The two suffer unspeakable trauma that shows the horror of war in its stark, bleak reality.
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