Historic Premiere: First Woman Composer at Metropolitan Opera

• Missy Mazzoli is the first woman composer to have a world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera.
• The opera is an adaptation of George Saunders' Booker Prize-winning novel 'Lincoln in the Bardo'.
• The opera explores themes of grief, loss, and the afterlife.
• Mazoli's long collaboration with librettist Royce Vavrek was essential to the project.
• Punk music helped shape Mazzoli's musical sensibility.