Letters That You Will Not Get: Women’s Voices from the Great War
In this week's episode, Alice and Nicolas interview librettist Susan Werbe and composer Kirsten Volness about musical representations of war. In particular, Susan and Kirsten discuss the opera they created with colleague Kate Holland, Letters That You Will Not Get: Women's Voices from the Great War. As Susan explains, most representations of WW1 have been white, male and Eurocentric - but this was a global conflict which impacted many different people in many different ways. Letters uses the ...