Missy Mazolli resisted opera when she was studying with Louis Andriessen in the Netherlands.  But she came upon the story of a Swiss advneturer, Isabel Eberhardt, and felt the scope of opera, and the opportunity it offers to engage all the senses, was perfect to tell the story, “Songs from the Uproar,” emerged from the dark waters into which Eberhardt’s journals and diaries had fallen.    Article