“Soldier Songs” starts with a shot of a large tree in an empty field in late October, slightly right of center. Its leaves have fallen, showing off the lines of craggy branches. At first, you hardly ...

The rare show to warrant adjectives like wrenching and harrowing, David T. Little’s 60-minute operatic suite Solider Songs is engineered to wrench and harrow—and to dare theatergoers into actually ...