Letters and the Lost Voices of Women in WWI
presented by AOP and The National WWI Museum and Memorial

March 21st at 7pm CT / 8pm ET

FREE with RSVP

The American Opera Project (AOP) and The National WWI Museum and Memorial will give voice to the women of WWI and explore their, many times overlooked, contributions and cultural representations during a free, livestreamed presentation on March 21st. The event will feature readings of newly transcribed letters from the National WWI Museum and Memorial's archives, selections from the AOP-developed opera Letters That You Will Not Get: Women’s Voices from the Great War by composer Kirsten Volness and co-librettists Susan Werbe and Kate Holland, as well as a keynote talk by Jennifer Orth-Veillon, author, scholar and curator of the WWrite Blog. The event, produced by Emitha LLC, will be moderated by award-winning journalist Kelly Kennedy, Managing Editor for The War Horse and U.S. Army veteran.This event is co-produced by The National WWI Museum and Memorial and The American Opera Project.

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Letters That You Will Not Get: Women’s Voice from the Great War was developed by AOP and will receive its premiere in July 2022. The development of Letters That You Will Not Get: Women's Voices from the Great War is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and received funding from OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Female Composers program, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.

Letters That You Will Not Get is made possible through the generous leadership gifts of Lauren Adelman, Carrie Baldwin-Sayre, John Bates, Christina Bott Murphy, Marni Davis, Pegeen Rubinstein, Barbara Suter, Jean Telljohann, Denise VanLeuven, and the late Honorable Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.