Thomas Pasatieri


Thomas Pasatieri is an American opera composer.

Life and career

Pasatieri was born in New York City, United States. He began composing at age 10 and, as a teenager, studied with Nadia Boulanger, although his main teachers were Vittorio Giannini and Vincent Persichetti. He entered the Juilliard School at age 16 and eventually became the school's first recipient of a doctoral degree.
Pasatieri has taught composition at the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. From 1980 through 1984, he held the post of artistic director at Atlanta Opera.
He has composed 24 operas, the best known of which is The Seagull, composed in 1972. Two of his operas were premiered in 2007: Frau Margot by the Fort Worth Opera and The Hotel Casablanca in San Francisco. Other popular operas include La Divina and Signor Deluso.
In 1984, Pasatieri moved to Los Angeles, California, where he formed his film music production company, Topaz Productions. His film orchestrations can be heard in Billy Bathgate, Road to Perdition, American Beauty, The Little Mermaid, The Shawshank Redemption, Fried Green Tomatoes, Legends of the Fall, Thomas Newman's Angels in America and Scent of a Woman, among many others. In 2003, Pasatieri returned to New York to continue his concert and opera career.

Works

Operas

  • The Trysting Place, opera in one act; libretto by the composer
  • Flowers of Ice, opera in one act; libretto by the composer
  • The Women, opera in one act; libretto by the composer
  • La Divina, opera in one act; libretto by the composer
  • Padrevia, opera in one act; libretto by the composer after Boccaccio
  • Calvary, opera in one act; setting of the play by W. B. Yeats
  • The Trial of Mary Lincoln, opera in one act; libretto by A. H. Bailey
  • Black Widow, opera in three acts; libretto by the composer after Dos madres by Miguel de Unamuno
  • The Seagull, opera in three acts; libretto by K. Elmslie after the play by Anton Chekov
  • Signor Deluso, opera in one act; libretto by the composer after Sganarelle by Molière
  • The Penitentes, opera in three acts; libretto by A. H. Bailey
  • Inés de Castro, opera in three acts; libretto by B. Stambler
  • Washington Square, opera in two acts; libretto by K. Elmslie after Henry James
  • Before Breakfast, opera in one act; libretto by Frank Corsaro, based on the play by Eugene O'Neill, Revised 2006.
  • The Goose Girl, a children's opera in one act; libretto by the composer, based on a story by J. L. and W. C. Grimm
  • Maria Elena, an opera in one act; libretto by the composer based on a true story
  • Three Sisters, opera in 2 acts; libretto by Kenward Elmslie based on Anton Chekhov's play, Three Sisters
  • Frau Margot, opera in three acts; libretto by Frank Corsaro, based on his original play Lyric Suite
  • The Hotel Casablanca, opera in two acts; original libretto by the composer based on Georges Feydeau's play, A Flea in Her Ear.
  • The Heir Apparent
  • The Family Room, libretto by Daphne Malfitano
  • God Bless Us Everyone, an opera for Christmas
  • The Martyrs, libretto by Daphne Malfitano, an opera in two acts for two singers and piano solo
  • The Vaudevillian Opera in two acts; libretto by the composer.

    Orchestral

  • Invocation
  • Symphony No. 1
  • Symphony No. 2
  • Symphony No. 3

    Concertante

  • Serenade for violin and chamber orchestra
  • Concerto for piano and orchestra
  • Concerto for 2 pianos and strings
  • Concerto for harpsichord and chamber orchestra
  • Concerto for viola and orchestra

    Instrumental and chamber music

  • Piano Sonata No. 1
  • Piano Sonata No. 2
  • Piano Sonata No. 3
  • Cameos for solo piano
  • Theatrepieces for clarinet, violin and piano
  • Quartet for flute and strings
  • Sonata for viola and piano
  • Sonata for flute and piano
  • Piano Sonata No. 3
  • Rhapsody for trombone and piano
  • Manifesto for unaccompanied viola

    Vocal music

Choral

  • Permit Me Voyage
  • Mass
  • A Joyful Noise
  • Three Mysteries
  • The Harvest Frost
  • Bang the Drum Loudly
  • Canticle of Praise
  • Mornings Innocent
  • In the light of angels Children's chorus, solo soprano, mezzo, baroque orchestra

    Voice and chamber ensemble

  • Heloïse And Abelard
  • Far From Love
  • Canciones del barrio
  • ''Letter to Warsaw''

    Voice and orchestra

  • Rites Of Passage
  • Voice and chamber orchestra or string quartet
  • Sieben Lehmannlieder
  • ''Alleluia''

    Voice and piano

  • Day of Love
  • Three Sonnets from the Portuguese
  • Sieben Lehmannlieder
  • Windsongs
  • Alleluia
  • Three Poems of Oscar Wilde
  • A Rustling of Angels
  • Letter to Warsaw
  • The Daughter of Capulet
  • Lady Macbeth
  • The Bride of the Moor
  • Three Songs of Kirsten Van Cleave
  • The Last Invocation
  • Orpheus
  • Dream Land
  • Three Poems of James Agee
  • Ophelia's Lament
  • Vocal Modesty
  • Overweight, Overwrought Over You
  • Divas of a Certain Age
  • Bel Canto Songs
  • Duets