An American Soilder
2018
Performance forces:
2 sop, 2 mez, 4 ten, 5 bar, 7 bass —
Length:
Languages:
English
Notes:
The opera is based on a true story, the suicide of Danny Chen, a Chinese-American U.S. Army soldier who had been subjected to racial harassment and beatings by his fellow soldiers. Chen died in 2011 at his U.S. Army post in Afghanistan from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.