Missy Mazzoli, composer • performer

Abigail Fischer in Song from the Uproar at the Kitchen by Missy Mazzoli — Abigail Fischer in Song from the Uproar at The Kitchen, New York City 2012

Helga Davis in Elsewhere by Missy Mazzoli — Helga Davis in Elsewhere at BAM, 2011

Breaking the Waves at Opera Philadelphia, 2016

Cree Carrico, Andrew Harris and Michael Slattery in Proving Up at Opera Omaha, April 2018

Kiera Duffy in Breaking the Waves at Opera Philadelphia, 2016

Missy Mazzoli performing on stage — Missy Mazzoli

Missy Mazzoli and Victoire — Victoire (Eleonore Oppenheim, Eileen Mack, Missy Mazzoli, Olivia De Prato, Lorna “Dune” Krier)

Missy Mazzoli is the 21st century’s gatecrasher of new classical music.

NPR’s Turning the Tables

The unleashing of Mazzoli’s apocalyptic imagination on the huge Met stage is an occasion eagerly awaited.

Alex Ross, The New Yorker

harrowing...powerful...a true opera of our time.

Washington Post on Proving Up

Missy Mazzoli is “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart.”

Time Out New York

Missy Mazzoli's Breaking the Waves is savage, heartbreaking and thoroughly original.

Heidi Waleson, The Wall Street Journal

Breaking the Waves stands among the best 21st-century American operas yet.

David Shengold, Opera News

...among the more consistently inventive and surprising composers now working in New York.

New York Times

Luna Composition Lab Annual Festival

April 23-27, 2022, New York City Twenty-two alums and current students of the Luna Lab Composition program descend on New York city for a week of concerts, workshops and masterclasses.

Alexander Whitley Dance, Chaotic Body II: Liminal Phase

Missy’s Music for Dance Featured at G. Schirmer

“In the dance world, Mazzoli’s music was featured in two recent projects that garnered international attention. Her thrilling music for Robert Binet’s 2019 Orpheus Alive, a dance-theatre reimagining of the classic tale of Orpheus and Eurdyice, is an evening-length orchestral score…

Listen to “Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)” performed by Frankfurt Radio HR-Orchestra

Listen to Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) performed by Frankfurt Radio HR-Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Bjarnason on February 24th, 2022. [Mazzoli’s piece begins at 48:20.]

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