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Last week the company offered its first world premiere since that ill-fated season, and for a change it looks as if the Met has a hit. The work is The Ghosts of Versailles, by New York City-born John Corigliano, 53. The Met's artistic director, James Levine, picked Corigliano with both genuine admiration and a steady eye on the box office. Corigliano's theatrical, highly finished orchestral works, including clarinet and flute concertos and a symphony, are being played with increasing frequency around the country and are popular with audiences. His score for Ghosts may not be trailblazing...
...innovation, which extends to the manufacture of mallets and the design of a new marimba. He is also struggling to create a repertory, which previously had consisted largely of transcriptions and arrangements. Stevens has performed more than 25 new works and commissioned an unaccompanied solo piece from John Corigliano. Slowly, the musical world is getting the message. In recent seasons, Stevens, a graduate of the Eastman School of Music who lives in Asbury Park, N.J., has been booked for as many as 50 performances, and audience reception has been enthusiastic. Says Stevens: "I'm doing everything I can to legitimize...
...Carlo and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, the company has used the latest scholarship to offer versions that are as musicologically accurate as possible. In honor of its centennial next season, the Met has commissioned new operas from Composers Jacob Druckman (on the Medea legend) and John Corigliano (based on the third of Beaumarchais's Figaro plays...
...rock version was inevitable. The Naked Carmen is a rock extravaganza in which Bizet's score is emotionally stripped, musically raped and symbolically incinerated in a simulated atomic blast of electronic caterwauling. Written, arranged and produced for Mercury Records by Composer John Corigliano and Record Producer David Hess, The Naked Carmen regards Carmen as a Women's Lib heroine. "Free, honest, a hippie traveling around like the gypsies in Spain," Hess explains. "But Micaela is a bitch, a real castrating female. In the opera she minces up and whines, 'Here's a kiss from your mother...
...Says Corigliano: "The Naked Carmen started because Mercury wanted something that would sell a million copies. They never got over their 1812 Overture -the one with all the cannons-and they asked me to do a reorchestration of Carmen. I happen to think Bizet did it pretty well himself, so I said no. Then I met David. We got to talking about Prosper Mérimée's original Carmen story, which is tough as a documentary film. We decided to go about ten times as far as Rodion Shchedrin did in The Carmen Ballet that...