Collaborations
The Night Falls is an evening-length work of dance-driven music theater choreographed and directed by Troy Schumacher (NYC Ballet/BalletCollective), with book and lyrics by Karen Russell (Swamplandia!), music and lyrics by Ellis Ludwig-Leone (San Fermin).
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One of the New York Times’ Best Dance Performances of 2023
Works & Process at the Guggenheim
The Night Falls: A Song and Dance Collaboration Straight Outta Swamplandia
Proving Up is an opera about the American Dream, told through the story of Nebraskan homesteaders in the 1870s. A family dreams of "proving up" and obtaining the deed to the land they've settled. The opera is based on a short story by Karen Russell and composed by Missy Mazzoli.
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Oregon Symphony: Missy Mazzoli & Karen Russell, with Gabriel Kahane
Review: An Opera Reaches the American Dream’s Brooding Heart
Performed by frequent collaborators Eliza Bagg (Lisel, Roomful of Teeth) and the GRAMMY®-winning Attacca Quartet, and featuring original lyrics from Karen Russell (Swamplandia!) and poet Carey McHugh (American Gramophone), False We Hope is a meditation on faith and family, the ghostly origins of language, and the lonely vigils people keep, together and alone.
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Forthcoming Collaborations
The Galloping Cure
Libretto by Royce Vavrek after a story by Karen Russell
Directed by Tom Morris
The Galloping Cure transposes Kafka's story “A Country Doctor” to our present-day opioid crisis. A surreal tale about a doctor, her daughters, her patients, and the demonic peddler of a “miracle cure,” set in the frozen heart of Appalachia.