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Meet the Composer and Librettist

Jerome Hynes Theatre, Wexford Opera House Thursday October 22nd 11am-12pm

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Jerold Barnard - Presenter

Executive Director/Producer of Conversations with William M. Hoffman, seen on CUNY-TV at Lehman Studios, New York and long-time colleague of both of these celebrated gentlemen, facilitates this public interview.  The Interview hopes to expose the dynamic and wonderful relationship that brought the magnificent production of The Ghosts of Versailles to life!

John Corigliano – Composer ‘The Ghosts of Versailles’

American born, Corigliano serves on the composition faculty at the prestigious Juilliard School of Music, and holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Music at Lehman College, City University of New York, and is a multi award winning composer.  Some of Corigliano’s more well-renowned works: The Red Violin (2005), developed from the themes of the score to the Francois Girard’s film of the same name, which won Corigliano the Oscar in 1999: Symphony No.2 won him the Pulitzer Prize in Music.


William M. Hoffman – Librettist ‘The Ghosts of Versailles’

William M. Hoffman is the author of the Broadway play As Is, which earned him a Drama Desk Award in 1986, an Obie, as well as Tony and Pulitzer nominations for best play.  He also wrote the libretto to The Ghosts of Ver¬sailles which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1991. Hoffman is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, three National Endowment Awards, ASCAP and Fund for New American Plays awards, two grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Erwin Piscator Award. In 1992 his television work brought him an Emmy nomination and he received a Writers Guild award. Hoffman has written critically for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, and Vogue.  In 2001 he premiered a masque, The Cows of Apollo, with composer Chris Theofanidis, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; in 2002 he completed the opera Morning Star, with Ricky Ian Gordon, for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Other works include Chico de Jazzzz, Cyberian Nights, The Stench of Art, and an adaptation of Carlo Gozzi’s Blue Monster, all of which he also directed at Lehman College.  January 2009 saw the world premiere of Cornbury (written with Anthony Holland). He is the host and Artistic Director of Conversations With William M. Hoffman, seen on CUNY-TV.  He is Professor of Theatre at Lehman College.  He is currently completing an autobiographical work, Memoirs of an Ex-Boy.

Free Event – Unreserved Seating – Early Arrival Advised


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