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 Applications Now Open!

Applications for Luna Composition Lab 2023 – 2024 are now open! Apply by September 15 for the Luna Lab Fellowship or Adventures in Sound. More information available at lunacompositionlab.org.

Missy Mazzoli interviewed by Emma Robertson for The talks

Missy Mazzoli interviewed by Emma Robertson for The talks, on August 16, 2023. View full interview at the attached link. “The goal can’t be to make art to satisfy everyone’s demands, because then you’re not really creating anything that is…

Missy’s new percussion work Millennium Canticles part of Third Coast Percussion’s newest album, out September 8th

Missy Mazzoli’s latest percussion work Millennium Canticles part of Third Coast Percussion’s newest album Between Breaths, out September 8th, 2023. Streaming available on Spotify and Apple Music.

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