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Mark Adamo

Up-and-coming composer-librettist

Born 1962, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
About Mark Adamo

Adamo's first opera, Little Women, was an immediate success, and has been produced more than 60 times by smaller companies around the U.S. His second, based on Aristophanes' Lysistrata, was originally scheduled to premiere in Houston in 2002, then postponed; it finally premiered on March 4, 2005 and has received similarly good notices. With only two evening-length operas behind him, Adamo is already considered a major composer, with Playbill calling him "the Gian Carlo Menotti of his time."

Adamo was composer in residence at New York City Opera from 2001 through 2006. He is the partner of composer John Corigliano.

Operas
  • Little Women, opera in two acts
    Libretto by the composer after the novel by Louisa May Alcott.
    March 13, 1998, Houston Opera Studio, Houston, Texas
  • Avow, chamber opera (1999)
  • Lysistrata, or The Nude Goddess
    Libretto by the composer after the Lysistrata of Aristophanes.
    March 4, 2005, Houston Grand Opera
  • The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
    Libretto by the composer.
    [commissioned by the San Francisco Opera for a planned June, 2013 premiere]

Discography Search for recordings of the music of Mark Adamo at Amazon.com

Mark Adamo

Little Women

Houston Grand Opera

2 CD / Ondine 998 (2001)

Bibliography Search for books by and about Mark Adamo at Amazon.com

"Couldn't I unbake the breads" from Little Women

"Perfect as we are" from Little Women

"Things change, Jo" from Little Women

in

G. Schirmer American Opera Anthology: Mezzo-Soprano

G. Schirmer 2004

Mark Adamo

Little Women (Piano-vocal score)

G. Schirmer 2001

Mark Adamo

"You're not my own" (for soprano and piano)

G. Schirmer 2006

Mark Adamo

"I am not my own" (for soprano and piano)

G. Schirmer 2006

Mark Adamo

"Peace: Yes! Of Course..." (for mezzo-soprano and piano)

G. Schirmer 2006

"Kennst du das Land" ("Do you know the land") from Little Women

"There was a knight" from Little Women

in

G. Schirmer American Opera Anthology: Baritone/Bass

G. Schirmer 2004

Mark Adamo

"War: Sure! I Know..." (for mezzo-soprano and piano)

G. Schirmer 2006

Mark Adamo

Nico's Credo (for tenor and piano)

G. Schirmer 2006

"Have peace, Jo" from Little Women

"Joy beyond measure, Mother!" from Little Women

in

G. Schirmer American Opera Anthology: Soprano

G. Schirmer 2004

Mark Adamo

Little Women (libretto)

G. Schirmer 2001

Mark Adamo

"Too late in the day, sir " (for bass-baritone and piano)

G. Schirmer 2006

Mark Adamo

"Have Peace, Jo," (Piano reduction)

Hal Leonard 2003

Mark Adamo

"Kennst du das Land" (Piano reduction)

Hal Leonard 2003

Mark Adamo


Last update: May 3, 2010