Works: "Fern Hill" (chorus and orchestra); "Kaleidoscope" (two pianos); "Sonata for Violin" and Piano" (Spoleto Festival award); and "The Cloisters" (songs).
In 1979 was comissioned by the Metropolitan Opera to write a new opera
for the company, the first Met comission in almost fifteen years. After
twelve years of work composing, Corigliano's new opera, "The Ghosts of
Versailles," received its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera, in
December 1991, with James Levine conducting.
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Known for his haunting, dissonant, menacing & ominous pieces in his modern classical pieces.
