John Corigliano, Jr. (b2/16/1938)

Commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera, where it premièred in December 1991, Corigliano’s “grand opera buffa” The Ghosts of Versailles sold out two engagements at the Metropolitan (1991 and 1994) as well as its 1995 production at the Chicago Lyric Opera. The nationwide telecast of the Metropolitan’s première production was released on videocassette and laser-disk by Deutsche Grammophon. Following its première, The Ghosts of Versailles collected the Composition of the Year award from the first International Classic Music Awards. In April 1999, The Ghosts of Versailles received its European première, in a new production directed and designed for the opening of the new opera house in Hannover, Germany, and is due for another revival at the Met in the ’09–’10 season. Recent works include 2004’s Circus Maximus: Symphony No. 3, for multiple wind ensembles: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (‘The Red Violin’) released on compact disk by Sony in December 2007 with Marin Alsop leading soloist Joshua Bell and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the orchestral song cycle Mr Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan, recorded for Naxos in March 2007, with JoAnn Falletta leading soprano soloist Hila Plitmann and the Buffalo Philharmonic (Naxos 8.559331).

Corigliano’s catalogue includes three symphonies, seven concerti (for violin, flute, clarinet, oboe, guitar percussion, and piano), numerous shorter works for orchestra and an extensive catalogue of chamber works, which have been recorded on numerous major labels. His music is published exclusively by G. Schirmer, Inc.

For more information about John Corigliano, please visit his website at www.johncorigliano.com.