9/11. It is based on the best-selling non-fiction book by James B. Stewart . It has a deeply appealing hero-protagonist. And it covers conflicts from Vietnam to 9/11. In case you missed them, just listen to and read some of these advance stories: http://video.pbs.org/video/2137433456 http://www.npr.org/2011/09/10/140336330/-heart-of-a-soldier-an-opera-at-the-heart-of-9-11 http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2011/09/11/140332812/sept-11-on-the-opera-stage-christopher-theofanidis-heart-of-a-soldier But then came the world