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Proving Up<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

October 22 – 24, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The 2021 collaboration between the College of Fine Arts School of Music: Opera Institute and School of Theatre featured the new opera Proving Up<\/em>, with music by by Missy Mazzoli and libretto by Royce Vavrek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proving Up<\/em> was the second production in the 2021 Fringe lineup, an opera based on a short story by Swamplandia!<\/em> author Karen Russell. The new piece is the work of composer Missy Mazzoli (BUTI\u201998, CFA\u201902) and frequent collaborator librettist Royce Vavrek. Proving Up <\/em>is the story of the Zegners, a family of homesteaders trying to make it on the dry Nebraska plains in the 1860s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Program & Credits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n