Dominick Argento is considered to be America's leading composer of lyric opera * Has written thirteen operas; most have been performed in both Europe and the U.S. * The majority of his music is vocal; all of it - instrumental and vocal - displays a natural dramatic impulse * In a predominantly tonal context, his music freely combines tonality, atonality and 12-tone writing * Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for his song cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
Works by Dominick Argento include: Postcard from Morocco (1971) opera in one act Casa Guidi (1983) five songs for mezzo-soprano and orchestra Miss Havisham's Fire (1979, rev.2000) opera in two acts with prologue and epilogue
Looking Ahead: In honor of the 25th anniversary of its premiere with the same company, Dominick Argento's The Aspern Papers receives a new production with the Dallas Opera, April 12–28, 2013.
"I think that music ... began as an emotional language. For me, all music begins where speech stops." — Dominick Argento
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