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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…

“After [Haimovitz’s] own arrangement of the Kyrie from Josquin’s Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae, we hear Missy Mazzoli’s tribute to the same work — with a rhythmic gait that suggests both…

“Ms Mazzoli’s operatic works have foregrounded women who doubt or flout social norms, and clash with communal authority.”

“In 2018, Missy Mazzoli made history when she became one of the first two women (along with Jeanine Tesori) to be commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. She has chosen to…

“…Proving Up makes for compelling listening. Both the expansive Nebraska landscape and claustrophobic forces of psychology, family, bureaucracy, and blasted hopes are fully present. If those vectors become tangled now…

Missy Mazzoli featured on Radiolab’s episode The Cataclysm Sentence. Summary: One day in 1961, the famous physicist Richard Feynman stepped in front of a Caltech lecture hall and posed this…

“…Nézet-Séguin, who launched his tenure by commissioning operas from composers Missy Mazzoli and Jeanine Tesori (the first women to create new work for the Met in the company’s 140-year history;…

“What happens when you add sound to such formidably oppressive filmic hush? The New York composer Missy Mazzoli has spent years grappling with that question. ‘Back in 2013,’ she says, ‘my…

“The runners up for this year’s award are “An American Soldier” by composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang; and “Proving Up” by composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce…

“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…

“…Missy Mazzoli continued her ascendance as one of the most prominent and badass voices in the field. Her latest opera, “Proving Up,” premiered at the Washington National Opera in January, and…

“…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…

“Mazzoli’s third full-length opera, Proving Up, recently closed its acclaimed New York run, and she’s emerging from the whirlwind. Based on a short story by Swamplandia! author Karen Russell, Proving Up examines the American…

“Composer Missy Mazzoli is at the top of her game. Having just premiered her third opera, Proving Up, to wide acclaim, Mazzoli was recently commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera; one of…

“Missy Mazzoli, 38, is trying to tear down the gates for new composers and listeners. She’s a prominent figure in new music; she has three operas to her name with…

“With the New York premiere of “Proving Up,” at the Miller Theater on Sept. 26 and 28, the composer Missy Mazzoli has that contemporary musical miracle: a hotly anticipated third opera, a…

“Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) stood out in the program as a masterpiece from start to finish.”

“So far in her impressive career, the music of composer Missy Mazzoli has mostly defied labels. Categorizations like “multimedia” or the more flattering “dynamic amalgamation” carry little weight with the 37-year-old New…

“I think my music is very narrative or cinematic at times,” [Mazzoli] says. “Even my instrumental music usually tells some sort of story. I’m always thinking about the psychology behind…

“The music of Missy Mazzoli is a treat in and of itself and that is especially the case in collaboration with Royce Vavrek. It’s a rarity to see a tale…

“Ms. Mazzoli’s expert score is ominously insinuating and brutal by turns.”

“Mazzoli’s music, though clearly contemporary, nevertheless fit the setting and the mood of the opera. And Vavrek’s libretto spoke volumes with relatively few well-chosen words.”