Missy Mazzoli, composer • performer

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

photo by Caroline Tompkins

“Missy Mazzoli is having a moment;” the Boston Globe reports on Missy’s impact as a composer in the Boston area and beyond

Trailer out now for Missy’s opera Breaking the Waves at Theater St. Gallen in St. Gallen, Switzerland.