ADAMO, MARK  

Mark Adamo’s most recent première is Four Angels: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, introduced by the National Symphony Orchestra in June 2007. His second opera, Lysistrata: or, The Nude Goddess, bowed in March 2006 at New York City Opera, at which Adamo served five years as composer-in-residence. Lysistrata was commissioned and introduced by Houston Grand Opera for its fiftieth season in March 2005. Since its 1998 première, also by Houston Grand Opera, Little Women, the first opera for which Adamo composed both music and libretto, has been nationally telecast on the PBS series Great Performances, released on CD by Ondine Records, and heard in over sixty engagements from New York to Mexico City, Minneapolis, Adelaide, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo. Choral works include Cantate Domino, for the Choral Arts Society of Washington; Garland, for Francisco Nuñez and the Young People’s Chorus of New York, introduced in 2006; and Supreme Virtue, released on CD by Seattle’s Esoterics in spring 2008.

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