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This is Kouyoumdjian’s first opera, but she has been writing string quartet music of theatrical power for the past decade and has been championed by the Kronos Quartet.

A new Kronos recording devoted to those works will be released in early March, and it features pieces with narration about war and peace in the Middle East that are grippingly theatrical.

Egoyan, who wrote the appreciative liner notes for Kouyoumdjian’s Kronos recording, is a talented opera director.

Coincidentally, the Kronos, with three new members, were in town last week at the Wallis for the Southern California premiere of Michael Abels’ “At War With Ourselves — 400 Years of You,” for string quartet, narrator and chorus.

Back in the Mirror Universe, described here as “a parallel universe with the most criminal population in recorded history,” Georgiou had brutally ruled the Terran Empire as Her Most Imperial Majesty, Mother of the Fatherland, Overlord of Vulcan, Dominus of Kronos, Regina Andor, Philippa Georgiou Augustus Iaponius Centarius.