This performance of Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles features Patricia Racette as Marie Antoinette along with Christopher Maltman (Beaumarchais), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Louis XVI), Lucas Meachem (Figaro), Robert Brubaker (Bégearss), Guanqun Yu (Rosina; Countess Almaviva), Lucy Schaufer (Susanna), Joshua Guerrero (Count Almaviva), Renée Rapier (Cherubino), Stacey Tappan (Florestine), Brenton Ryan (Leon), Scotty Scully (Marquis), Victoria Livengood (Woman with Hat), Joel Sorensen (Wilhelm), Philip Cokorinos (Suleyman Pasha), and Patti LuPone (Samira). James Conlon conducts.
John Corigliano’s ‘The Ghosts of Versailles’
Patti LuPone as Egyptian singer Samira (Photo: Craig T. Mathew)