OTSL's "The Ghosts of Versailles" Opens June 17

From Alex Ross's great The Rest Is Noise blog:

John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles pleased most critics when it opened at the Metropolitan Opera at the end of 1991. I wasn't among them; in a review for the New Republic I described the opera as "nowhere music," a miscellaneous pastiche of Romantic and modernist styles.

I recently listened again to a recording of The Ghosts of Versailles and found myself liking it a great deal more. Even if the composer's voice remains at times elusive, the craftsmanship and vitality of the writing make a powerful impression. St. Louis audiences may judge for themselves when a new, streamlined version of The Ghosts of Versailles opens at the Opera Theater of St. Louis on June 17.