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Missy Mazzoli Becomes First Woman Composer With a Met Opera World Premiere
Composer Missy Mazzoli will have a world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera, becoming the first woman composer to do so.
The opera adapts George Saunders’s novel “Lincoln in the Bardo”, a sprawling ghost story.
Mazzoli worked with librettist Royce Vavrek, her longtime collaborator, to turn the novel into an opera.
She said that collaboration was essential to shaping the story for the stage.
Mazzoli also discussed how punk music shaped her musical sensibility.
The premiere marks a first for women composers at the Met, though no further details about what happens next were given.
Missy Mazzoli is the first woman composer to have a world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera.
She discussed the milestone on Bloomberg This Weekend.
The opera adapts George Saunders's novel Lincoln in the Bardo.
Mazzoli said her long collaboration with librettist Royce Vavrek was essential to turning the novel into an opera.
She also discussed how punk shaped her musical sensibility.
- Who
- Composer Missy Mazzoli.
- What
- She became the first woman composer to have a world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera.
- When
- The article was published on November 7, 2026; the premiere date is not stated.
- Where
- The Metropolitan Opera.
- Why
- The opera adapts George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo. The sources do not state why the Met chose the work.
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- Composer
- Missy Mazzoli
- Opera house
- Metropolitan Opera
- Adapted novel
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
- Librettist
- Royce Vavrek
- Article publication
- November 7, 2026