FLATO ACADEMY THEATRE PRESENTS
THE OTHER MOZART
The Forgotten Story of Mozart’s Genius Sister
THE OTHER MOZART is an award-winning, Drama Desk nominated play telling the true, forgotten story of Nannerl Mozart, the genius sister of Amadeus, who performed throughout Europe alongside him to equal acclaim, but her work and her story faded away, lost to history.
Set in a stunning 18-foot dress, inspired by the Mozart family’s hilarious and heartbreaking letters, this award-winning production by playwright Sylvia Milo ushers you into a world of opulence and delight – obscured by restriction and prejudice. Music score by Nathan Davis and Phyllis Chen (Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival) brings Nannerl’s musical imagination to life using clavichords, music boxes, teacups and fluttering fans.
With the opulent beauty of the dress, the sweet smell of perfume, the sublime enveloping sound and the clouds of dusting powder rising from the stage, the performance creates a multi-sensual experience. There, in communion with the audience, this other Mozart at last tells her story.
Sylvia Milo
An award-winning theatre artist, actress, playwright and director, an immigrant from Poland, based in New York City. Milo wrote, starred in, and self-produced (crowd-funded) her one-woman play, The Other Mozart, which had a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run at HERE Arts Center, and received Drama Desk and Off Broadway Alliance (Best Solo Performance) nominations, 2 New York Innovative Theatre Awards (incl. Outstanding Solo Performance), and 8 nominations (incl. Outstanding Full Length Script). The play has had over 400 performances to date, in 32 US States and 10 countries including in London at St. James Theatre, in Munich at the Pasinger Fabrik, in Vienna and Salzburg at the Mozart apartments (at the invitation of the Mozarteum Foundation), in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Cultural Center and in China at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center.
Milo was commissioned by The Guardian to write an article about The Other Mozart and its cultural impact, which in turn inspired the creation of the PBS / Mediastockade documentary, “Mozart’s Sister.”
Her latest play, 7 MAGDALENES: I am the utterance of my name, was developed at fellowships at the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy and the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York, with performances at PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century in Chatham, NY, at Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ, at Theaterlab in NYC, premiering Off-Broadway at HERE Arts.
The Other Mozart continues touring internationally, in January 2027 it will be presented by the Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg at the Mozartwoche Festival (under artistic direction of Rolando Villazón).
"Strikingly beautiful" - New York Times
“A gem of a show” - The Stage (London)
“dazzling, original performance… hauntingly beautiful compositions… the dress is worthy of a gallery installation all its own.” - LA Times
"fascinating and irresistibly intelligent... it is beautiful."
- Theatermania
"This show is the height of theatrical achievement."
- Theater is Easy
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