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Corigliano, John (1938– )| US composer. His brilliant and romantic extravaganza The Ghosts of Versailles was staged at the New York Metropolitan Opera House in 1991. |
| He studied with Otto Luening at Columbia University and privately with Paul Creston; and in 1973 began teaching at Lehmann College, New York. |
Works Orchestral violin sonata (1963), Elegy for orchestra (1966), piano concerto (1968), clarinet concerto (1977), Hallucinations for orchestra (1981), Echoes of Forgotten Rites for orchestra (1982), Symphony (1990). |
Stage incidental music for plays by Sophocles, Molière, and Sheridan; opera The Ghosts of Versailles (1991). |
Other Naked Carmen, arrangement of Bizet for singers, pop and rock groups, synthesizer, and instruments. |
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