The American Opera Project has announced “Working Women: Songs of Suffering and Suffrage.”

The program will be presented alongside the chamber opera “Letters That You Will Not Get: Women’s Voices from the Great War” as an online tour ending on Nov. 11, 2020. The project aims to celebrate the 100^th anniversary of the passage of the 19^th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote in the U.S.

“Songs of Suffrage” is a song cycle commissioned by The American Opera Project. It is comprised of three songs, including Kathryn Bostic’s “Her Sovereign Blackness a Beautiful Light” as well as Jessica Rudman’s “Beyond the Power of Any to Deny,” and Tony Solitro’s “Revolution Begins in the Bedroom.

“Letters That you Will Not Get” is a chamber opera by composer Kirsten Volness and librettists Kate Holland and Susan Werbe that gives voice to American, British, European, Asian, African and Caribbean women affected by World War I. The opera will feature an ensemble of singers including Angel Desai, Briana Hunter, Maria Lindsey, Caitlin McKechney, Jessica Sandidge, and Sarah Beckham-Turner.