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Glimmerglass Festival releasing opera film for free on website

The Glimmerglass Festival is releasing  'The Knock', a 50 minute opera as a film for free on its website on Veteran's Day, Thursday, November 11.

'The Knock', composed by Aleksandra Vrebalov, was originally slated for a 2020 stage production, but after the pandemic hit, they decided to create the work as a film. The one-act opera is about the wives of military men waiting for news of their husbands.

The libretto, created by Deborah Brevoort, is based on interviews of soldiers' spouses.

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