John Corigliano
Autore di The Red Violin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Columbia University
Opere di John Corigliano
The Ghosts of Versailles: Live from The Metropolitan Opera [1992 film] — Compositore; Compositore — 4 copie
Altered States: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack — Compositore — 2 copie
Mr Tambourine Man 2 copie
Corigliano: The Red Violin Caprices / Thomson: Three Portraits; Five Ladies; Eight Portraits (2008) 2 copie
What I expected was ... For mixed chorus with piano accompaniment ... Words by Stephen Spender 1 copia
Voyage for flute and piano 1 copia
Sonata, violin, piano 1 copia
Voyage for String Orchestra 1 copia
New York Variations / Various 1 copia
The Final Transformation 1 copia
La Bohème Fanfare 1 copia
Corigliano : Sonata for violin and piano + Glinsky : Toccata-Scherzo + Messiaen : The Quartet For The End Of Time :… — Compositore — 1 copia
The Ghosts of Versailles, Act 1 1 copia
The Ghosts of Versailles, Act 2 1 copia
John Corigliano: Phantasmagoria; To Music; Fantasia on an Ostinato; Three Hallucinations (2005) 1 copia
Symphony No. 1 [sound recording] — Compositore — 1 copia
Poem in October 1 copia
Voyage - for String Orchestra 1 copia
Main Title and First Hallucination (Ritual Sacrifice and Religious Memories) (Altered States) 1 copia
Love Theme 1 copia
New York Variations [sound recording] — Compositore — 1 copia
Opere correlate
American Landscapes — Compositore — 6 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Corigliano, John
- Nome legale
- Corigliano, John
- Data di nascita
- 1938-02-16
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Attività lavorative
- composer
- Relazioni
- Adamo, Mark (partner)
- Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Music, 1991)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Music, 1989)
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 80
- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
- 188
- Popolarità
- #115,783
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 15
- ISBN
- 30
- Lingue
- 1
John Corigliano's opera premiered at the Met in 1991 and has had major productions at the Lyric Opera of Chicago (1995) and Los Angeles Opera (2015). It is based on La Mère coupable, the final play in Beaumarchais' Figaro trilogy. All three plays were adapted into operas numerous times, but of course we are familiar with the first two installments: The Barber of Seville (Rossini) and The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart). Versailles, however, is a different kind of adaptation, more of a reworking.
Years after her death in the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette and her court are depressed ghosts, loitering pointlessly at Versailles as they mourn the world they have lost. Beaumarchais, also a ghost in her world, is in love with the Queen and determines to both win her love and rewrite history, to save her from the guillotine. To do so, Beaumarchais stages an elaborate new Figaro play, and the lines between their "real" world and the fictional world quickly begin to blur.
A self-consciously "grand" opera, which often parodies conventions of both Mozart's age and others, Corigliano's work is extravagant and thus expensive, which is one reason its performances have been limited. But it offers gorgeous opportunities from a technical standpoint and a musical one. The score presents faux-Mozartian jewels (Figaro's grand aria, particularly), contemporary classical writing, especially in the vocal line for Marie Antoinette, and delicious character pieces, from the self-consciously evil villain Bégearss to the (deliberate) Oriental stereotype of the Turkish singer Samira, performed at the work's premiere by Marilyn Horne, and in 2015 by Patti LuPone.
Utterly bonkers but continuously exquisite, with enough to entertain both the old school and the new. It would be a delight to see the three 'Figaro' operas performed by a company in a single year, but sadly Corigliano's work remains one of those obscure gems.… (altro)