Organization

Director(a) orquestal

Joshua Horsch

Director(a) de escena

Audrey Chait

Cantante

Tenor

Dylan Morrongiello

Miles Zegner

Soprano

Christina Mancheni

Mrs Johannes Zegner

Barítono

Joseph Lodato

Mr Johannes Zegner

Mezzosoprano

Kayla Wilkens

Zegner Sister 1

Hilary Grace Taylor

Zegner Sister 2

Bajo

William Meinert

The Sodbuster

Opera Las Vegas

inglés

Proving Up

Las Vegas

Estados Unidos

Proving Up Mazzoli

Public

Válido

In this haunting and harrowing tale, composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek compel you to discover the brooding heart of the American Dream. With a chilling investigation into the physical and emotional hardship of settling the West, this piece is a riveting counterpoint to the often overly glamorized backward glances.

The Homestead Act of 1862 — by which settlers, mainly west of the Mississippi River, could acquire public land they’d farmed, or “prove up” — contained an odd provision: To be considered for the land grant, the homesteads, among other requirements, had to include a glass window. Based on a true story, Ms. Mazzoli conjures aural bleakness with an uncanny, confident mixture of instrumental savagery and eerie lightness. The shadowy sound of guitars drifts through the music; chaotic refractions of hoedown fiddling occasionally explode within a landscape of jittery unease. Mazzoli’s colorful, fragmentary, and evocative contemporary score perfectly complements Vavrek’s terse, cogent texts.

English

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