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Missy Mazzoli’s upcoming album Dark with Excessive Bright featured in Alex Ross’s Nightafternight playlist under “new and recent releases of interest.” The album will be released with BIS Records on March 3, 2023.

World premiere collaboration between Missy Mazzoli and Rufus Wainwright at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue in New York, New York, on May 2, 2023. Visit the link for more information and tickets.

Livestream Juilliard Opera’s performance of Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up on Sunday, February 19th at 2:00pm EST. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9pDeaNSdc

New album “Dark with Excessive Bright” out March 3rd on Bis Records, with violinist Peter Herresthal, the Arctic Philharmonic, the Bergen Philharmonic, and conductors Tim Weiss and James Gaffigan. Featuring the world premiere recordings of FOUR orchestral works: Dark with…

“As a youngster in rural Pennsylvania, Missy Mazzoli knew she didn’t want to become an astronaut or a nurse. Instead, she announced at age 10 that she was a composer — even though she hadn’t yet written a note. The…

“Composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek will each receive a Marc Blitzstein Memorial Award of $10,000, which are given in the memory of Marc Blitzstein to composers, lyricists, or librettists to encourage the creation of works of merit for…

Acclaimed music critic and author Alex Ross calls Missy Mazzoli’s latest opera The Listeners “a potent, chilling and excruciatingly relevant work” (The Rest is Noise). In The New Yorker, Ross labels Missy among “a growing cohort of American women taking possession of…

Alex Ross calls Missy Mazzoli’s latest opera The Listeners a “potent, chilling and excruciatingly relevant work.” (November 17, 2022)

Stream Missy Mazzoli’s latest opera The Listeners for free on Opera Vision until May 12, 2023. View the trailer for The Listeners here.