
Raves: “…caviar for a world gorging on pizza.” — The New York Times
Awards: Gillman Gonzalez-Falla Foundation Award (2002); National Institute for Music Theater Award (1989); Stephen Sondheim Award (1991); Special Recognition Award from the Gillman Gonzalez-Falla Music Theater Foundation (1993, 1994); the Constance Klinsky Award (2000); multiple awards from ASCAP, Meet the Composer, The American Music Center and the National Endowment for the Arts. His musical Dream True won the Richard Rodgers Production Award given by the American Academy of the Arts and Letters (1999).
Operas: Dream True, Only Heaven, States of Independence, Stonewall/Night Variations, The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Operetta: Autumn Valentine
Musicals: My Life with Albertine, Shimmer
Ballet: The Anyone’s Ballet

Born: October 9 or 10, 1813, in Roncole, Italy
Died: January 27, 1901, in Milan, Italy
Operas: Oberto, Un giorno di regno, Nabucco, I lombardi alla prima crociata, Ernani, Macbeth, Luisa Miller, Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La traviata, Les vêpres siciliennes, Simon Boccanegra, Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino, Don Carlos, Aida, Falstaff
By phone: Call 213-972-7282 or 800-787-5262 (in California) 10 am–5 pm, Mon–Fri
In person: at the Walt Disney Concert Hall Box Office, 111 South Grand Avenue, at First Street in downtown Los Angeles, Noon–6 pm, Tue–Sun