Patria is a cycle of music-theatre works written over a period of 40 years by R. Murray Schafer.
[1] The cycle is framed by a prologue The Princess of the Stars and an epilogue And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon, and includes ten other major works.
All twelve of the works place heavy emphasis on the location of performance.
[2] The third production in the series, Patria 3: The Greatest Show, was adapted into the film Carnival of Shadows.
[3] In 1966, Schafer originally conceived of Patria as a bipartite work, where the two halves would be performed simultaneously on separate stages.