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How Kurt Vonnegut’s First and Only Opera Was Completed

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Happy Birthday, Wanda June, Vonnegut’s reworking of the myth of Odysseus’s return from the Trojan War, was meant as a commentary on the Vietnam War. Now it will be performed as an opera for the first time.

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