Mỹ Lai / music by Jonathan Berger ; libretto by Harriet Scott Chessman.

On March 16, 1968, the United States Army killed over 500 unarmed civilians in the hamlet of Mỹ Lai, Vietnam. This definitive recording of the new opera Mỹ Lai recounts the visceral, phantasmal feelings of grief and horror experienced by US helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson on that day and in the haunt...

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Main Author:	Berger, Jonathan, 1954- (Composer)
Corporate Author:	Kronos Quartet (Instrumentalist, audio producer,)
Other Authors:	Chessman, Harriet Scott (Librettist), Eckert, Rinde (Singer), Vō, Vân-Ánh Vanessa (Instrumentalist)
Language:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	Sung in English.
Published:	[Washington, DC] : Smithsonian Folkways, [2022]
Subjects:	My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968 > Songs and music. Operas.
Genre:	Songs and music. Operas.
Physical Description:	1 audio disc (70 min., 52 sec.) : CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	CD Audio