Press

“Mazzoli’s third full-length opera, Proving Up, recently closed its acclaimed New York run, and she’s emerging from the whirlwind. Based on a short story by Swamplandia! author Karen Russell, Proving Up examines the American dream through a family of homesteaders in 1860s Nebraska. ‘You’re taught as a young American that if you work hard and do the right things, everything is going to work out,’ Mazzoli says, breaking into a wry smile, ‘but the reality is something very different.’ “