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August 2 & 3 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

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Missy Mazzoli short story by Karen Russell, is a surreal commentary

Composer on the American dream. It was commissioned and
premiered by Washington National Opera, Opera
Omaha and Miller Theatre, and was deemed
Recently deemed “one of the more consistently “harrowing…a true opera for its time” by The
inventive, surprising composers now working in Washington Post. Her 2016 opera Breaking the
New York” (The New York Times), “Brooklyn’s Waves, commissioned by Opera Philadelphia and
post-millennial Mozart” (Time Out NY), and praised Beth Morrison Projects, was called “one of the best
for her “apocalyptic imagination” (Alex Ross, The New 21 -century American operas yet” by Opera News.
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Yorker), Missy Mazzoli has had her music performed Breaking the Waves received its European premiere
by the Kronos Quartet, LA Opera, Eighth Blackbird, at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival; future performances
the BBC Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, are planned at LA Opera, Houston Grand Opera and
Scottish Opera and many others. the Adelaide Festival.
In 2018 she became, along with Jeanine Tesori, Her next opera, The Listeners, premiered in 2021
one of the first women to receive a main-stage at the Norwegian National Opera and Opera
commission from the Metropolitan Opera, and was Philadelphia. In 2016, Mazzoli and composer Ellen
nominated for a GRAMMY award in the category Reid founded Luna Lab, a mentorship program for
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of “Best Classical Composition.” She is currently the young female composers created in partnership with
Mead Composer-in-Residence at the Chicago the Kaufman Music Center. Her works are published
Symphony Orchestra, and from 2012-15 was by G. Schirmer. SAVE THE DATE!
Composer-in-Residence with Opera Philadelphia.
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Her 2018 opera Proving Up, created with longtime
collaborator librettist Royce Vavrek and based on a
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