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Mazzoli - Proving Up | Pentatone PTC5186754

Mazzoli - Proving Up

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Label: Pentatone

Cat No: PTC5186754

Barcode: 0827949075469

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 28th August 2020

Contents

Artists

Opera Omaha
International Contemporary Ensemble

Conductor

Christopher Rountree

Works

Mazzoli, Missy

Proving Up

Artists

Opera Omaha
International Contemporary Ensemble

Conductor

Christopher Rountree

About

Opera Omaha presents Missy Mazzoli’s opera Proving Up (2018) in its premiere recording with the International Contemporary Ensemble, and conductor Christopher Rountree. Crowned as “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart” by Time Out New York, Mazzoli is one of today’s most exciting young composers. Her music is state of the art, frequently employing electronics, but simultaneously full of nostalgia and melancholy.

Mazzoli has received considerable acclaim for her operatic compositions, including Breaking the Waves (2016) and Song from the Uproar (2012). For Proving Up, she works together with librettist Royce Vavrek. Proving Up is based on a short story by Karen Russell, and offers a surreal and disquieting commentary on the American dream through the story of a Nebraskan family homesteading in the late 19th century. Commissioned by the Washington National Opera, the Miller Theatre at Columbia University, and Opera Omaha, the piece has been receiving rave reviews, and will be presented in several of the biggest US opera houses in the coming years. The Washington Post called it “harrowing…powerful…a true opera of our time”.

Royce Vavrek returns to PENTATONE after The House Without a Christmas Tree (2018, music by Ricky Ian Gordon). Missy Mazzoli, Opera Omaha, the International Contemporary Ensemble and Christopher Rountree all make their PENTATONE debut.

“Ms. Mazzoli conjures bleakness with an uncanny, confident mixture of instrumental savagery and eerie lightness, as when a moody orchestral storm recedes into the glassy drone of harmonicas. (Glassiness is, unsurprisingly, a quality of much of the score.) The shadowy sound of guitars drifts through the music; Ms. Mazzoli’s chaotic refractions of hoedown fiddling occasionally explode within a landscape of jittery unease. Sudden drooping slides and players sawing away at their string instruments, punctuated by the somberly shuddering twang of horn and trumpet, give a sense of wandering and rootlessness.” – New York Times

Cast:
- Miles Zegner: Michael Slattery
- Mr Johannes ‘Pa’ Zegner: John Moore
- Mrs Johannes ‘Ma’ Zegner: Talise Trevigne
- Taller Zegner Daughter: Abigail Nims
- Littler Zegner Daughter: Cree Carrico
- The Sodbuster: Andrew Harris

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