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Missy Featured in Bostonia:

Last November, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York called for an “artistic reinvention” of the form in an op-ed headlined “How to Save Opera in America? Make It New Again.”

Opera companies battling pandemic losses, audience and donor declines, and competition from streaming media need to find new ways to sustain themselves, Peter Gelb wrote in the New York Times, and that starts on the stage.

Maybe he had that in mind back in 2018, when he commissioned composer Missy Mazzoli to write a new opera for the Met. Mazzoli (CFA’02) seems likely to be a prominent player in opera’s future in America after what anyone would call a pretty good 2024.

The New Yorker: A Mesmerizing New Opera About a Sonic Cult

“Mazzoli is a once-in-a-generation magician of the orchestra… [The Listeners] is perhaps her most original work to date… sinuously songful vocal lines; furtively expressive instrumental solos; a harmonic language that finds newness and strangeness in the interstices of traditional tonality; unerring narrative pacing.” Alex Ross, The New Yorker

Announcing the 2024 Luna Lab Festival

We are thrilled to announce our annual festival, which will be held from June 17-22, 2024 in San Francisco.
The 2023–24 fellows—Maria Emiliano, Ilaria Hawley, Haeon Lee, Peyton Nelesen, Marvel Roth, and Hannah Wolkowitz—will travel to San Francisco to participate in six days of workshops, masterclasses, networking events, performances, and more. Get to know the fellows on our website.