Composer Missy Mazzoli discussed adapting George Saunders’s “Lincoln in the Bardo” for the Metropolitan Opera, where she became the first woman composer to have a world premiere, according to Bloomberg. On Bloomberg This Weekend, she told hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini that punk shaped her musical sensibility and that her long collaboration with librettist Royce Vavrek was essential to turning Saunders’s ghost story into an opera.