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

Missy Mazzoli discusses the upcoming European premiere of her new violin concerto at BBC Proms

Mazzoli says “With each work, I endeavor to provide a new language for thoughts and feelings…I want to provide space in which we can process the overwhelming nature of the world…In this sense, a velvet-lined theatre can become arenas for…

WATCH mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo and pianist Sophia Muñoz perform Missy Mazzoli’s You Are the Dust

WATCH mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo and pianist Sophia Muñoz perform Missy Mazzoli’s song You Are the Dust, featured on the Classical Album of the Year enargeia.

Emily d’Angelo’s album enargeia named classical album of the year, featuring music by Missy Mazzoli

Emily d’Angelo’s album enargeia named classical album of the year at the Juno Awards, featuring music by Missy Mazzoli, Hildur Gudnadottir, Sarah Kirkland Snider and Hildegard von Bingen.

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