John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles

Name: John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles
Start: 2025-04-11T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-11T22:30:00-05:00
Location: Brockman Hall for Opera

Schedule

Fri Apr 11 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Brockman Hall for Opera | Houston, TX

You’ve never seen an opera like this before. Step inside a world of fantasy, hilarity, and boundless imagination as the Shepherd School Opera Department presents John Corigliano’s mesmerizing The Ghosts of Versailles.
Benjamin Manis, conductor*
Patricia Racette, director
Joshua Winograde, Director of Opera Studies & Professor of Opera
Shepherd School Chamber Orchestra
As the curtain rises, we encounter the ghosts of King Louis XVI’s court, including Marie Antoinette who is still haunted by the memory of her execution. Her favorite playwright tries to lift her spirits with an opera featuring the beloved characters from Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. As the “opera within an opera” unfolds, realities blend, worlds collide, and events take an unexpected turn. An evening of spectacle, suspense, laugh-out-loud humor, and astonishing emotional poignancy awaits in this grand celebration of the power of opera.
Sung In English with English surtitles
*Shepherd School alumnus
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Inside Opera: Pre-show Talk with John Corigliano
Join composer John Corigliano in Tudor Patrons’ Lounge on the parterre level one hour before curtain time of The Ghosts of Versailles for an insightful look into the process of composing the opera. Available to all opera ticketholders on a first-come, first-served basis.
Discounts are available for Rice University alumni and current Rice University faculty, staff, and students. Call 713-348-8000 for more information.
Reserve tickets and find more info online: https://music.rice.edu/content/john-coriglianos-ghosts-versailles