Press

“The BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion day was a chance to get to know a broad cross section of [Mazzoli’s] work, culminating in a staging of her first opera, Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt…music and text combined to create a poetically emotional brew…It’s a dazzlingly original score, written for just five instruments…but enhanced by electronics and bolstered by a substantial chorus, the excellent BBC Singers. Given the opera’s themes of bereavement and suicide, the music’s upbeat syncopations, with woodwind licks, pealing piano and grungy guitar came as a pleasant surprise. At times pre-recorded sound emerged from a haze of static, like voices out of the past. 4/5 stars.