Opera
John Corigliano
The Ghosts of Versailles
Teresa Perrotta, Peter Morgan, Ben Schaefer, Jonathan Bryan, Spencer Britten, Kayla Siembieda, Joanna Latini, Emily Misch, Christian Sanders, Brian Wallin; Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal/Joseph Colaneri
Château de Versailles CVS 036
145:12 mins (2 discs)
It was brave of John Corigliano to choose the French Revolution for a new opera for the Met in a century that that lauded and ; and then to raise the cultural stakes by adding Mozart and Rossini to the mix after reworking the third of Beaumarchais’s Figaro plays. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and their court are ghosts at a performance of Figaro’s last adventure with the Almavivas
