Missy Interview Karen Russell for BOMB Magazine
MacArthur “Genius” Karen Russell speaks to composer Missy Mazzoli, her friend and operatic partner, about her new novel, The Antidote, and why the Dust Bowl isn’t just an American story.
San Francisco Opera announces it will join commissioning consortium of The Galloping Cure new opera by Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek based on a short story by Karen Russell
Future San Francisco Opera seasons will continue to feature new works, including the co-commission of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s The Galloping Cure, examining addiction and the opioid crisis.
The New Yorker: A Mesmerizing New Opera About a Sonic Cult
“Mazzoli is a once-in-a-generation magician of the orchestra… [The Listeners] is perhaps her most original work to date… sinuously songful vocal lines; furtively expressive instrumental solos; a harmonic language that finds newness and strangeness in the interstices of traditional tonality; unerring narrative pacing.” Alex Ross, The New Yorker