Is Missy Mazzoli (music) and Royce Vavrek’s adaptation of Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier’s 1996 cult classic Breaking the Waves the first opera to depict a toilet onstage? If not – and suddenly I’m ...

Discovering her husband is paralyzed in Breaking the Waves: Lauren Snouffer and Ryan McKinny. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane When soprano Lauren Snouffer says playing Bess McNeill in the opera Breaking ...

For nearly a decade, Pennsylvania-born, Brooklyn-based composer/musician Missy Mazzoli has taken “Breaking the Waves,” her operatic adaptation of Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier’s breakthrough 1996 ...

Premiered in Philadelphia in 2016, Missy Mazzoli's attempt, for all her fitful skill in operatic story-telling, doesn’t come close. The chamber orchestra – excellent Scottish Opera players under ...