Die Soldaten laments the ravages of war through the eyes of a small town girl whose affair with a military officer leads to her downfall

Opera fans in New York were recently treated to a rare performance of one the most ambitious musical theater pieces ever produced. Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten was mounted in the cavernous drill hall of the Park Avenue Armory. VOA's Behnam Nateghi takes us behind the scenes for a closer look at the staging of this German opera.