The Other Mozart by Sylvia Milo
THE OTHER MOZART is an award-winning play telling the true, forgotten story of Nannerl Mozart, the sister of Amadeus – a prodigy, keyboard virtuoso and composer, who performed throughout Europe with her brother to equal acclaim, but her work and her story faded away, lost to history. This performance creates a multi-sensual experience and transports the audience into a world of outsized beauty and delight — but also of overwhelming restrictions and prejudice. There, in communion with the audience, this other Mozart at last tells her story.
About The Production: Created, written and performed by (http://sylviamilo.com/), and now also performed by (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2533285/), THE OTHER MOZART had a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run in NYC at HERE Arts Center, earning Drama Desk and Off Broadway Alliance nominations, and 8 New York Innovative Theatre (NYIT) nominations, including Outstanding Full Length Script, winning Outstanding Solo Performance and Original Music. THE OTHER MOZART is based on facts, stories and lines pulled directly from the Mozart family’s humorous and heartbreaking letters. Along with music composed by her famous brother and Marianna Martines (a female composer who inspired Nannerl). Original music was written for the play by (https://www.nathandavis.com/) and (http://www.phyllischen.net/) – featured composers of Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, BAM and the International Contemporary Ensemble.
Our history is made of the stories we choose to tell. With Nannerl Mozart we can actually trace what happened, what were the forces that silenced and erased her. Nannerl’s story has been relegated for centuries as a footnote in her brother’s story.
It is important today because it is not a tale of a singular villain thwarting and oppressing a female genius: rather it is but one example of a systematic tragedy happening innumerable times throughout history, and it is symbolic of so many other stories.
Her story shifts the perspective, bringing this other Mozart, a female genius, into the history of the great – inspiring us to question the history we know and to search for more untold stories.
Drama Desk Award nomination: Outstanding Sound Design in a Play New York Innovative Theatre Awards: Outstanding Solo Performance (Sylvia Milo), Outstanding Original Music (Nathan Davis and Phyllis Chen) 8 New York Innovative Theatre nominations:**Outstanding Production, Full Length Script, Solo Performance, Direction,**Original Music, Sound Design, Set Design, Costume Design. Off Broadway Alliance Award nomination: Best Solo Performance (Sylvia Milo)
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