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.