My Lai

The Kronos Quartet is joined by Vietnamese musician Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ for the world premiere of Jonathan Berger’s operatic one-hander about the U.S. Army’s massacre of civilians during the Vietnam War. Mixing traditional string quartet arrangements with Vietnamese instruments, voice and recorded sound, the narrative is presented in a non-linear fashion that finds its protagonist reflecting on the war in melodic fits and starts.