Breaking the Waves shortlisted for international Opera Award
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Missy’s Vespers for Violin nominated for a Grammy in Category of Best Classical Composition
If you haven’t yet listened to Missy Mazzoli’s Vespers for Violin, recently nominated for a GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Composition, put on your headphones for 5 minutes and 41 seconds of gorgeousness and watch this “cryptic vision of the…
Proving Up named “Best New Work of 2018” by Washington Classical Review
“Best New Work: Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative had not produced a new opera that could be called great—until this year. Missy Mazzoli, a composer with a major success already under her belt, followed up with the excellent one-hour…
Breaking the Waves coming to West Edge Opera, Summer of 2019
West Edge Opera offers the West Coast premiere of Breaking the Waves in August 2019. See full season announcement here
Missy’s Opera Proving Up on WQXR End of Year Top Ten List
“…Meanwhile, the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera unveiled dramatic new programming developments under their respective new music directors, Jaap Van Zweden and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The orchestra had a bold Louis Andriessen festival, while the Met announced a full commissioning…
Missy speaks about Proving Up on Studio 360
“Karen Russell’s short story “Proving Up” is a bleak tale about one such family trying to earn their plot in post-Civil War Nebraska. And it’s now been adapted into a chilling new opera by composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce…
