What is the name of the mini-opera on The Who's 2006 album 'Endless Wire'?

The mini-opera on The Who’s 2006 album Endless Wire is “Wire & Glass.” It occupies the album’s central sequence and consists of nine connected pieces, including “Sound Round,” “Pick Up the Peace,” “Unholy Trinity,” “Trilby’s Piano,” “Endless Wire,” “Mirror Door,” and “Tea & Theatre.”

The project grew out of Pete Townshend’s story The Boy Who Heard Music. Townshend initially described the larger work as “The Glass Household,” then developed a shortened version into the “Wire & Glass” EP. That EP was released before the full Endless Wire album and served as a preview of the mini-opera’s musical world.

Endless Wire was released in October 2006 and was The Who’s first album of new original studio material in 24 years. It was also the band’s first such album after the death of bassist John Entwistle. The album combines conventional rock songs with the more narrative, suite-like mini-opera.

The wording can cause confusion because “Wire & Glass” is both the title of the mini-opera within Endless Wire and the title of the related 2006 EP. “A Quick One,” “Tommy,” and “Quadrophenia” are other Who theatrical or narrative projects, but they are not the mini-opera on this album.