The Wake World

The Wake World is an opera with music and libretto by David Hertzberg.

[1][2] The Wake World was a co-presentation of Opera Philadelphia and the Barnes Foundation, directed by R. B. Schlather and conducted by Elizabeth Braden.

[1][2] The opera is based on the story "The Wake World" by Aleister Crowley.

[3] "The whole evening felt celebratory", Opera News wrote of The Wake World.

The score, spiked with modernist elements, makes Mr. Hertzberg seem a 21st-century Ravel", wrote Anthony Tommasini.