Introduced by Houston Grand Opera, Little Women has enjoyed over sixty national and international engagements. Mark Adamo first attracted national attention with the libretto and score to his uniquely successful début opera, Little Women (1998), after the novel by Louisa May Alcott. Ghosts continues to reign as one of the most significant operas of the past 50 years. Corigliano’s first opera is the acclaimed The Ghosts of Versailles (1991), which was The Metropolitan Opera’s first commission in almost 25 years when it first premiered to sold-out audiences. The Lord of Cries is the second opera with music by John Corigliano, whose scores have won him the Pulitzer Prize, the Grawemeyer Award, five Grammy Awards, and an Oscar. James Darrah directs the premiere production conducted by Johannes Debus. The cast features Anthony Roth Costanzo as Dionysus (the ‘Lord of Cries’), Susanna Phillips (Lucy Harker), David Portillo (Jonathan Harker), and Jarett Ott (John Seward) in lead roles. The Lord of Cries reveals intriguing intersections between two classics of Western literature - The Bacchae by Euripides and Dracula by Bram Stoker - to warn of the monster within us, not around us. In July and August 2021, Santa Fe Opera will present the world premiere of The Lord of Cries, a new opera composed by John Corigliano to a libretto by Mark Adamo. He flies tonight, on dragons’ wings, Under the smoking skies: His high, thin voice: Ecstasy and ruin! Our brother, Our master: the Lord of Cries! Deny him not his place…
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