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

LA Opera Screens Short Opera Film based on Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up, Composer makes a surprise acting cameo!

Alone in the woods, a young man is pursued by a horrifying specter and by visions of his deceased sisters. A meditation on the precarious uncertainty of the American Dream and the role that uncontrollable forces play in our lives, The West…

Grand Band performs THREE FRAGILE SYSTEMS for six pianos [WORLD PREMIERE]

Watch the world premiere of THREE FRAGILE SYSTEMS for six pianos, performed by Grand Band with a new animated film by Joshua Frankel, filmed live at Peak Performances at Montclair last February. Watch here

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Classical Post: Missy Mazzoli Is Shaping The Future On And Off Of The Opera Stage

PIANIST NATALIA KAZARYAN INTERVIEWS MISSY MAZZOLI TO DISCUSS PROVING UP, THE FUTURE OF OPERA, LUNA COMPOSITION LAB, UPCOMING PROJECTS AND MORE.

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