Arden Must Die (Arden muss sterben) is an opera by Alexander Goehr.
The German libretto was written by Erich Fried, with an English version by Geoffrey Skelton.[1] It tells the story of the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife Alice and her lover Mosbie. The libretto draws on two sixteenth-century accounts of the murder, namely the version by chronicler Raphael Holinshed and the anonymous play Arden of Faversham.[1]
The British première was at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, on 17 April 1974, conducted by Meredith Davies.[1]