The Ghosts of Versailles

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The Ghosts of Versailles is an American opera by John Corigliano with a libretto by William M. Hoffman that blends comedy, drama, and the supernatural in a meta-theatrical reimagining of Beaumarchais’s Figaro plays.

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instanceOf American opera
opera
awarded Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording
basedOn The Barber of Seville
The Figaro Trilogy by Pierre Beaumarchais
The Guilty Mother
The Marriage of Figaro
character Beaumarchais
Bégearss
Count Almaviva
Figaro
Marie Antoinette
Rosina
commissionedBy Metropolitan Opera
commissionReason Metropolitan Opera centennial
composer John Corigliano
countryOfOrigin United States
genre comic opera
grand opera
meta-theatrical work
hasRecording Metropolitan Opera recording conducted by James Levine
includesElement comedy
drama
opera within an opera
supernatural
language English
librettist William M. Hoffman
musicalStyle eclectic
notableProduction Los Angeles Opera 2009 production
Wolf Trap Opera 2015 production
premiereConductor James Levine
premiereDirector Colin Graham
premiereRolePerformer Gino Quilico as Figaro
Håkan Hagegård as Beaumarchais
Renée Fleming as Countess Almaviva
linked to: Renée Fleming

Teresa Stratas as Marie Antoinette
publisher G. Schirmer
setting Palace of Versailles
structure two acts
style postmodern
subjectMatter afterlife of Marie Antoinette at Versailles
political intrigue during the French Revolution
reimagining of Beaumarchais’s Figaro characters
timePeriodOfSetting French Revolution era
reign of Louis XVI
worldPremiereDate 1991-12-19
worldPremierePlace Metropolitan Opera House, New York City

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New York City Opera presentedWorldPremiereOf The Ghosts of Versailles
William M. Hoffman notableWork The Ghosts of Versailles
subject linked to: William Hoffman
Darko Tresnjak directed The Ghosts of Versailles