Music by Alva Henderson

Libretto by Dana Gioia

Excerpts from "Sotto Voce: The Libretto as Literary Form" can be read here. The complete text is included as an afterword in the book.

Based on the classic 1922 vampire film by F. W. Murnau, Nosferatu is a retelling of the dracula story from the perspective of a gifted woman struggling againt the pull of evil, even as she watches it destroy the man she loves. Click here for a synopsis of the opera.

<Max Schreck as Count Orlock in Murnau's Nosferatu (1922)