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MICHAEL KORIE wrote the lyrics
for
Grey Gardens. Composed by Scott
Frankel and with a book by playwright
Doug Wright, it opened at Playwrights
Horizons in a production directed by
Michael Greif starring Christine
Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson. Korie
is co-writing lyrics to composer Lucy
Simon’s music for Zhivago with
book by Michael Weller and direction
by Des McAnuff, opening at The La
Jolla Playhouse. Also with composer
Frankel, Korie wrote book and lyrics
of two original musicals: Doll,
presented at Chicago’s Ravinia
Festival and developed at The Sundance
Institute with direction by Lonny
Price; and Meet Mister Future
being directed by Christopher Ashley
at Barrington Stage.
For opera, Korie has written the
libretto to The Grapes of Wrath
composed by Ricky Ian Gordon. Adapted
from Steinbeck’s novel, it premieres
beginning in 2007 at Minnesota Opera,
Utah Opera, and Houston Grand Opera
directed by Eric Simonson, conducted
by Grant Gershon. Korie wrote the
librettos to four operas composed by
Stewart Wallace: Harvey Milk,
Houston Grand Opera, directed by
Christopher Alden; San Francisco Opera
premiere recorded by Teldec;
Hopper's Wife, Long Beach
California Opera, directed by
Christopher Alden; Where's
Dick?, Houston Grand Opera,
directed by Richard Foreman;
Kabbalah, Brooklyn Academy of
Music Next Wave Festival, directed by
Ann Carlson, recorded on Koch Classics.
For the concert stage, with composer
Larry Grossman, Korie created Gay
Century Songbook to commemorate
The NYC Gay Men’s Chorus 20th
anniversary, premiered at Carnegie
Hall, recorded on DRG. His text to the
concert requiem, Kaddish for
Harvey Milk, was broadcast
live on the B.B.C. His songs with
Ricky Ian Gordon have been performed
by Los Angeles Master Chorale
conducted by Grant Gershon at Walt
Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles,
and at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully
Hall. For his lyrics, he was a
recipient of both The Edward Kleban
Award and The Jonathan Larson
Foundation Award. His work has been
presented at The Guggenheim
Museum “Works and Process” series, and
two of his musicals were awarded The
Richard Rodgers Production Award. He
lives in New York City with Ivan
Sygoda.
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