Press

“What happens when you add sound to such formidably oppressive filmic hush? The New York composer Missy Mazzoli has spent years grappling with that question. ‘Back in 2013,’ she says, ‘my librettist, Royce Vavrek, suggested making an opera out of Breaking the Waves. I said absolutely not: I thought the film was untouchable. But it was a question that wouldn’t leave me alone. The film deals with big ideas about the nature of loyalty, the nature of faith. Opera is a place for big ideas.’ “