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’s new Violin Concerto in dazzling Nordic premiere

Missy Mazzoli’s new Violin Concerto receives its dazzling Nordic premiere by Jennifer Koh, the Lahti Sympony and Dalia Stasevska. (Article by Jari Kallio)

Missy featured on cover of Opus Magazine

Missy Mazzoli featured in Opus Magazine (Sweden)

Missy Mazzoli featured in Opus Magazine (Sweden), with photos by Mats Bäcker.

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…

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