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'The Galloping Cure,' Missy Mazzoli's Opera on Opioids Epidemic, Premieres at Edinburgh Festival
Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek turn the opioid crisis into a fairytale opera, with a 2-hour, 15-minute score and 14-voice chorus.
- On Sunday, "The Galloping Cure" opened at the Edinburgh International Festival, using a carnival carousel as an allegorical portrayal of the opioid crisis.
- Composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek developed the work after commissioning author Karen Russell, drawing on Franz Kafka's "A Country Doctor" to create a fairy-tale framework addressing the epidemic.
- Baritone Justin Austin portrays the charismatic charlatan Lucky Man, while mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack plays Dr. Theresa Hart; set designers used 120 vertical LEDs to create hallucinatory effects.
- Performances run through Wednesday in Scotland, then the production moves to Sweden's Norrlands Opera from Sept. 12-23 and the San Francisco Opera in fall of 2027.
- This premiere marks the first of two Mazzoli launches within a 71-day span, as she prepares for her Metropolitan Opera debut with "Lincoln in the Bardo" on October 19.
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Missy Mazzoli's desire to compose an opera about the opioid epidemic was unleashed by the death of two cousins.
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