First opera about the Iraq War comes to the USF School of Music in Tampa

Share

Award-working Iraqi-American playright Heather Raffo joins us to talk about her latest work, Fallujah, the first opera about the Iraq War that will be performed at the USF School of Music in Tampa on Friday at 7:30 pm. She previously written and starred in an successful off broadway play, 9 parts of Desire, about the lives of 9 Iraqi women set between the two gulf wars.

Falljah is based on the true story of Christian Ellis, an American machine gunner whose platoon was ambushed in an attack that left him with a broken back. Like many combat veterans, he suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder upon returning to civilian life in the US.

Leave a Reply

  • (will not be published)

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>

You may also like

Former and current Florida legislators talk term limits at Tampa political forum

Listen: Over 30 years ago, Florida voters amended the state’s...

A man in a blue collared shirt, with rectangle glasses and a black hat. He has a short beard and is talking into a radio microphone with his left hand raised like a cobra.
Talking Florida’s rule changes on mushrooms and weed, with a side of strip clubs, too

For three sessions now, Carlos Hermida, who owns two hemp...

The Scoop: Fri. May 16, 2025, Tampa Bay and Florida headlines by WMNF

Florida municipalities are now forbidden from fluoridating water after Gov....

SOTD 5/16/25: MHMM by Chase Shakur

The WMNF Song of the Day for May 16th is,...

Ways to listen

WMNF is listener-supported. That means we don't advertise like a commercial station, and we're not part of a university.

Ways to support

WMNF volunteers have fun providing a variety of needed services to keep your community radio station alive and kickin'.

Gen X Redux
Gen X Redux