Breaking the Waves

“Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart”

—Time Out New York

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Breaking the Waves

Opera

Breaking the Waves
Opera Ventures/Scottish Opera
Composed by Missy Mazzoli
Libretto by Royce Vavrek
Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Directed by Tom Morris
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
The Chorus of Scottish Opera

BAM DEBUT

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“The 21st Century’s Gatecrasher of New Classical Music”

—NPR

Composer Missy Mazzoli has arrived. Growing up in small-town Pennsylvania, she taught tap dance to children and eventually found herself taking lessons in composition from a percussionist with the Philly Pops. Three operas later and a Grammy under her belt, Mazzoli recently made history when she became one of the first of two women composers to be commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera.

This season, BAM presents Mazzoli’s “dark and daring” (The New York Times) reimagining of Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves, the tale of Bess McNeill, a woman besieged by tragedy and the contradictions of the disparate figures in her life. Set in the remote Scottish Highlands, Mazzoli’s textured original score is a nuanced, intensely personal, and ultimately feminist take on Bess’ moral plight. What does it mean to be good when your agency is taken away from you?

Design by Soutra Gilmour
Lighting design by Richard Howell
Projection design by Will Duke
Sound design by Jon Nicholls

The production is a co-production of Opera Ventures, Scottish Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Adelaide Festival and Théâtre national de l’Opéra Comique

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SUBSCRIPTIONS ON SALE

Tue Jan 28

BAM Patrons & Members

Note: In English with English titles. Explicit language and sexual content

RUN TIME

Approx. 2hrs 50 min with one intermission

VENUE

Peter Jay Sharp Building

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

TICKET INFO

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Leadership support for Breaking the Waves provided by Robert L. Turner

Leadership support for programming in the Howard Gilman Opera House provided by:

Howard Gilman

Leadership support for opera at BAM provided by Aashish & Dinyar Devitre

Major support for Breaking the Waves provided by Arthur F. & Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation; The Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts; and Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation

Major support for Scandinavian programs at BAM provided by the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation

Major support for opera at BAM provided by Sarah Billinghurst & Howard Solomon

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Tue, Mar 10, 2020

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Tue, Mar 10, 2020

Artist Circle: Breaking the Waves

Artist Circle members are invited to an evening of discussion with composer Missy Mazzoli and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin around BAM’s upcoming production of Breaking the Waves.

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