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Breaking the WavesOpera PhiladelphiaNo. of reviews: 8 | |
A Lars von Trier opera makes a splash |
 2 Oct 16 / Phindie |
Missy Mazzoli’s new opera: luminous beauty and moving human insight |
| 1 Oct 16 / Seen and Heard |
Opera Philadelphia triumphs with Breaking the Waves |
| 29 Sep 16 / Broadway World |
Adultery in the name of love |
| 27 Sep 16 / Wall Street Journal |
Flawed masterpiece: Missy Mazzoli's Breaking the Waves opens in Philadelphia |
| 27 Sep 16 / Bachtrack |
'Breaking the Waves' lends musical heft to a von Trier tale |
| 26 Sep 16 / New York Times |
A troubling and engrossing world premiere |
| 25 Sep 16 / The Opera Critic |
A great operatic package if you can take it |
| 24 Sep 16 / Philadelphia Inquirer |
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With Breaking the Waves, composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek have adapted von Trier’s bleak 1996 fable set in an insular Calvinist community on the coast of Scotland.
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