Her next opera will be an adaptation of George Saunders’ novel Lincoln in the Bardo. Her most recent opera, The Listeners, commissioned by the Norwegian National Opera, Opera Philadelphia, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. Breaking the Waves received its European premiere at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival future performances are planned at LA Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and the Adelaide Festival. Her 2016 opera Breaking the Waves, commissioned by Opera Philadelphia and Beth Morrison Projects, was called “one of the best 21st-century American operas yet” by Opera News. It was commissioned and premiered by Washington National Opera, Opera Omaha and Miller Theatre, and was deemed “harrowing… a true opera for its time” by the Washington Post. Her 2018 opera Proving Up, created with longtime collaborator librettist Royce Vavrek and based on a short story by Karen Russell, is a surreal commentary on the American dream. In 2018 she became, along with Jeanine Tesori, one of the first women to receive a main stage commission from the Metropolitan Opera, and was nominated for a Grammy award in the category of “Best Contemporary Classical Composition.”įrom 2018-2021 she served as the Mead Composer-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and from 2012-2015 was Composer-in-Residence with Opera Philadelphia. Recently deemed “one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York” ( New York Times), “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart” ( Time Out NY), and praised for her “apocalyptic imagination” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker), Missy Mazzoli has had her music performed by the Kronos Quartet, LA Opera, eighth blackbird, the BBC Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, Scottish Opera and many others. Photography and recording of any kind are not permitted.

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