Tetra NovaTetra Nova tells the story of Lua Mater, an obscure Roman goddess who re imagines herself as an assassin coming to terms with an emerging performance artist identity in the late 20th century. The operatic text begins in Saigon, where she meets a little girl named Emi, an American of Vietnamese Japanese descent visiting her mother's country for the first time since the war's end. As the voices of Lua and Emi blend into one dissociated narration, the