The Vail Series presents ‘The Other Mozart’

“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. 

Created, written and performed by Sylvia Milo, “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 play, set in a stunning 18-foot dress, is based on facts, stories, and lines pulled directly from the Mozart family’s humorous and heartbreaking letters. With the opulent beauty of the dress and hair design, the sweet smell of perfume, and the clouds of dusting powder rising from the stage, the 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. And 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. 

The play inspired the creation of a documentary film on Nannerl Mozart, “Mozart’s Sister,” which features “The Other Mozart” and interviews with the play’s creator, Sylvia Milo. The film had its European premiere in Salzburg and in London at the Royal Society of Arts in 2024, and was broadcast in the US on PBS. It continues to be screened internationally. 

Written and Created by Sylvia Milo 

Performed by Sylvia Milo 

Directed by Isaac Byrne 

Music composed by Nathan Davis and Phyllis Chen 

For more information visit theothermozart.com

DENISON COMMUNITY TICKETS 

Tickets are free for Denison students, faculty, and staff. 

PUBLIC TICKETS 

We share these experiences with our larger community by making a limited number of tickets available for public sale on a first come, first served basis at $20 each. A limited number of Vail Season Passes are also available for all four concerts for $68 through October 23. 

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The Vail Series was endowed in 1979 by a generous gift from the late Mary and Foster McGaw in honor of Jeanne Vail, class of 1946. Just as it was intended to do, the Series enriches the artistic experience of the entire Denison community. Programmed creatively with the mindful pursuit of learning across traditional academic boundaries, more than 100 individual Vail Series artists have found their way to Denison’s classrooms and stages, but that doesn’t include the dozens of ensembles or full symphony orchestras that have played here over the years.