Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The New York Times wrote of 1996’s “Breaking the Waves” that “risky does not begin to describe ... the raw, crazy tour de force” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rough story, awesomely presented — that’s “Breaking the Waves,” playing Friday, April 12 and Sunday, April 14 at Detroit Opera. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s opera Breaking the Waves will come to the Detroit Opera House for three performances on April 6, 12 and 14. Soprano Kiera Duffy—who memorably created the role of Bess ...

Danish film director Lars von Trier’s “Breaking the Waves” was impactful when it opened back in 1996. But it’s had an arguably even more robust life on the opera stage. On Saturday, April 6, Detroit ...

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 ...

The New York Times wrote of 1996’s “Breaking the Waves” that “risky does not begin to describe ... the raw, crazy tour de force” that dared “to fuse true love with lurid exploitation and pure ...

Rough story, awesomely presented — that’s “Breaking the Waves,” playing Friday, April 12 and Sunday, April 14 at Detroit Opera. It’s based on a heralded 1996 Lars von Trier indie film that was adapted ...