John Corigliano

Corigliano is an often played and well-decorated American composer. His opera The Ghosts of Versailles of 1991 was the first commission from the Metropolitan Opera since 1967 and won the Composition of the Year Award from the International Music Awards. He has also written three symphonies–the second of which won the Pulitzer Prize. Corigliano’s score for the film The Red Violin was nominated for an Academy Award.

Corigliano’s cross-over of classical and popular music became even more prominent with his 2000 song cycle Mr. Tambourine Man, which sets the text of Bob Dylan new musical settings. Corigliano has many other song settings, including an early song cycle called Petit Fours and a setting of an English translation of Baudelaire’s “L’Invitation au Voyage,” as well as more settings of poems by various American poets.

–Christie Finn