This outstanding documentary takes us through the process of creating an opera commissioned by the renowned Kronos String Quartet. The opera is based on the experience of Hugh Thomson, the helicopter pilot who witnessed the killing of civilians at My Lai and did his best to rescue survivors.  

Moderated by Professor Mutsumi Moteki, co-chair, Voice and Opera, College of Music.
 

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This event is being held in association with the exhibition “Waging Peace In Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War,” opening at the University Libraries on October 30 in Norlin Library’s Underground West Gallery on the first floor. The exhibition documents the GI anti-war movement and their profound effect on the war through first-hand accounts, oral histories, posters, photographs, essays, underground newspapers and material from the U.S. National Archives.

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This outstanding documentary takes us through the process of creating an opera commissioned by the renowned Kronos String Quartet. The opera is based on the experience of Hugh Thomson, the helicopter pilot who witnessed the killing of civilians at My Lai and did his best to rescue survivors.  

Moderated by Professor Mutsumi Moteki, co-chair, Voice and Opera, College of Music.
 

Register to attend virtually
 

This event is being held in association with the exhibition “Waging Peace In Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War,” opening at the University Libraries on October 30 in Norlin Library’s Underground West Gallery on the first floor. The exhibition documents the GI anti-war movement and their profound effect on the war through first-hand accounts, oral histories, posters, photographs, essays, underground newspapers and material from the U.S. National Archives.

See the full list of events.