Skip to content

Missy Mazzoli

  • About
  • Music
  • Recordings
  • Projects
  • News
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Events Archive
  • Press
Listen

Press

Missy Mazzoli Is The 21st Century’s Gatecrasher Of New Classical Music

By Zoë Madonna
Published November 16, 2018
NPR Music

“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 librettist Royce Vavrek, including the vicious Breaking the Waves — an adaptation of the controversial 1996 Lars von Trier film — and the dry, spooky Proving Up, based on Karen Russell’s ghost story set on the 19th-century prairie. Her work engages with stories about human beings and the oft-fraught relationships between them. None of her main characters is someone you would aspire to be or, conversely, an irredeemable monster (except one, in Proving Up, who actually is a monster). But all are complex and fully realized. In the case of Breaking the Waves, Mazzoli’s act of adapting a story hinging on a woman’s trauma feels especially prescient in a time when it’s still common for such stories to be told by all-male creative teams.”

Online Version
See All Press

Join the List

Connect

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

© 2022 Missy Mazzoli. All rights reserved.

Site by Square Candy Design

PUBLISHER

All works, except those on the Victoire album Cathedral City, are published by G.  Schirmer, Inc.

U.S. Rentals: rental@schirmer.com • 845.469.4699

International Rentals Catalog Missy on G. Schirmer

For information about works on the Cathedral City album, please email missy@missymazzoli.com.

MEDIA & GENERAL INQUIRIES

missy@missymazzoli.com