
Composer Missy Mazzoli filters her opera 'The Listeners' through a contemporary lens
Operas have long confronted issues that were both timely and universal: Political persecution in Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Romantic obsession in Bizet’s “Carmen.” Imperialist indifference in Puccini’s “Madam Butterfly.” In the same way, Missy Mazzoli, one of …