Le piccole storie

About the show

The opera links short stories of civilians caught in wars across time. A Japanese businessman receives news of his country's surrender and later reenacts seppuku; the Roman poet Cinna is killed after being mistaken for another Cinna; two Balkan enemies trapped beneath a fallen tree begin to talk; and French hussar Épivent learns that cabaret singer Irma has been violated and infected enemy soldiers with syphilis as an act of revenge.