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Proving Up
PREMIERE1/19/2018
COMPOSERMissy Mazzoli   
LIBRETTISTRoyce Vavrek   
Pittsburgh Opera
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DATETIMELOCATION
2/17/20248:00 PMPittsburgh Opera Headquarters
Pittsburgh, PA
2/20/20247:00 PMPittsburgh Opera Headquarters
Pittsburgh, PA
2/23/20247:30 PMPittsburgh Opera Headquarters
Pittsburgh, PA
2/25/20242:00 PMPittsburgh Opera Headquarters
Pittsburgh, PA
Synopsis
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. They obsessively list the requirements of the Homestead Act: five years of harvest, a sod house dwelling, and perhaps the most elusive element — a glass window. With their eldest son incapacitated, Ma and Pa Zegner send their youngest living child Miles on a mission to share the valuable commodity with their distant neighbors who are expecting a visit from a government inspector. Miles mounts his gray mare with the window wrapped in burlap and gallops across the land. The elements, natural and otherwise, have other plans, and Miles comes face to face with a strange man who turns out to be the ghost of a neighboring farmer, driven mad by the requirements of "proving up." The willowy figure knows all too well the cost of the American Dream, and the window soon becomes a broken mirror reflecting great tragedy.
MOST PRODUCED SINCE 2000
RANKTITLEPRODUCTIONS
249Proving Up5
249Cyrano5
249Evita5
249Filumena5
249Il Postino5
249Il segreto di Susanna5
This work ranks as the #85 most produced North American title since 2000.

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