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Missy Mazzoli

Reading about Missy Mazzoli today. Born in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA in 1980. 

She won the best new opera Grammy in 2017 for Breaking The Waves. She won the Kraviz prize (Symphony.org).



Operas:

Salt 2012

Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt 2012

Breaking the Waves 2016

Proving Up 2018

The Listeners 2022

Lincoln in the Bardo 2025 (planned)

Her opera The Galloping Cure, scheduled for 2026, sets Franz Kafka’s short story A Country Doctor against the backdrop of the current opioid crisis in the USA. (Berliner Phil)


Links:

Cathedral City (Spotify).

Podcast about Breaking The Waves (Spotify).

My everything on Spotify playlist.

Jennifer Koh & Missy Mazzoli: Tiny Desk Concert (YouTube). This is amazing, watch this!

Vespers for a New Dark Age (Bandcamp).

NY Times review of The Listeners.

Her website.

She lost her father this year (Facebook).

5 Reasons to see Breaking The Waves (opera.org).





I use Spotify, but beware Spotify, here's a stubstack that exposes them.

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