Work: Lincoln in the Bardo

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Composer	Mazzoli, Missy (b. 1980)
Period	Contemporary
Librettist	Royce Vavrek
Work type	Opera / Oratorio

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New York CityLincoln in the BardoWorld premiere

Peter Mattei (Abraham Lincoln) and Everett Sobers (Willie Lincoln) © Karen Almond | Met Opera

Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, Nov 03, 07 mat, 11, 14

Mazzoli: Lincoln in the Bardo

Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Lileana Blain-Cruz; Metropolitan Opera; Steven Osgood; Adam Rigg; Montana Levi Blanco; Yi Zhao

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Lincoln in the Bardo: a spectacularly spooky world premiere at the Met

Susan Stempleski, 19 Oct

George Saunders’ prize-winning novel moves from page to stage in Lileana Blain-Cruz’s genre-defying, visually breathtaking and surprisingly cheerful production of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s operatic adaptation.

***11

Inside out and upside down: Opera world premieres 2026–27

Mothers of Kherson © Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera

Lawrence Dunn, 1 Sept

This season, new operas are depositing characters in limbo between this life and the next – from Lincoln in Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo, to Bassem Akiki’s supernatural retelling of the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.