WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION STREAMING NOVEMBER 11-18, 2022

In honor of Veterans Day, The American Opera Project is proud to release the film of the 2022 world premiere of Letters That You Will Not Get: Women’s Voices from the Great War at Brooklyn’s Irondale Center this past August. Letters will be available to stream on YouTube for one week only.

Free with registration. Suggested donation of $10.

Letters That You Will Not Get: Women's Voices from The Great War 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.

Composed by Kirsten Volness
Libretto by Kate Holland and Susan Werbe

WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION
Kate Bergstrom, Stage Director | Mila Henry, Music Director
Sara Brown, Co-Set Designer | An-Lin Dauber, Costume Designer / Co-Set Designer
Masha Tsimring, Co-Lighting Designer | Krista Smith, Co-Lighting Designer | Stefania Bulbarella, Projections Designer
CAST
Sarah Beckham-Turner | Tharanga Goonetilleke | Tesia Kwarteng | Maria Maxfield | Caitlin McKechney | Jessica Sandidge
QUINTET
Andie Tanning, Violin I | Sunny Sheu, Violin II | Tia Allen, Viola | Titilayo Ayangade, Cello | Eleonore Oppenheim, Double Bass

Filmed at The Irondale Center, Brooklyn, NY, August 2022

CREATive team

PREMIERE PERFORMERS

Funding 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. Recording of the 2022 World Premiere of Letters is made possible in part by the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.

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.