John Corigliano
Autor de The Red Violin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Columbia University
Obras de John Corigliano
The Ghosts of Versailles: Live from The Metropolitan Opera [1992 film] — Compositor — 4 copias
Altered States: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack — Compositor — 2 copias
Corigliano: The Red Violin Caprices / Thomson: Three Portraits; Five Ladies; Eight Portraits (2008) 2 copias
Mr Tambourine Man 2 copias
Voyage for flute and piano 1 copia
Sonata, violin, piano 1 copia
The Final Transformation 1 copia
Voyage for String Orchestra 1 copia
The Red Violin Concerto 1 copia
New York Variations / Various 1 copia
La Bohème Fanfare 1 copia
The Ghosts of Versailles, Act 2 1 copia
The Ghosts of Versailles, Act 1 1 copia
What I expected was ... For mixed chorus with piano accompaniment ... Words by Stephen Spender 1 copia
Corigliano : Sonata for violin and piano + Glinsky : Toccata-Scherzo + Messiaen : The Quartet For The End Of Time :… — Compositor — 1 copia
John Corigliano: Phantasmagoria; To Music; Fantasia on an Ostinato; Three Hallucinations (2005) 1 copia
Symphony No. 1 [sound recording] — Compositor — 1 copia
Poem in October 1 copia
Voyage - for String Orchestra 1 copia
Love Theme 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
American Landscapes — Compositor — 6 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Corigliano, John
- Nombre legal
- Corigliano, John
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1938-02-16
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
- Ocupaciones
- composer
- Relaciones
- Adamo, Mark (partner)
- Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Music, 1991)
- Premios y honores
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Music, 1989)
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 80
- También por
- 7
- Miembros
- 185
- Popularidad
- #117,260
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 15
- ISBNs
- 30
- Idiomas
- 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.… (más)