Jay Lesenger directs a new production of John Corigliano's Ghosts of Versailles at Manhattan School of Music, conducted by Steven Osgood. Get your tickets now for this dazzling production!

For 200 years, the ghosts of the Court of Louis XVI have haunted the wings of the Queen's Petit Theatre at Versailles. Beaumarchais, the playwright renowned for The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro, has fallen in love with the melancholy Marie-Antoinette who still laments her own violent death. Beaumarchais promises that by rewriting history in his newest play, Figaro for Antonia he will save the Queen from her tragic fate. But the characters in the play and the ghosts of the Revolution have other plans.

Since the enormously successful Metropolitan Opera premiere of The Ghosts of Versailles in 1991, Corigliano and Hoffmann's buffa opera-within-an opera has been recognized as a masterpiece. Andrew Porter, critic for the Times of London called it "a triumph with the public, a success with the New York press, and a sellout...greeted with a standing ovation". Manhattan School of Music's production of The Ghosts of Versailles, the first new New York production in almost 20 years, will be a sell-out too. Be sure to order your tickets early!

Three performances: Wednesday, April 25 @ 7:30pm, Friday, April 27 @ 7:30pm, Sunday, April 29 @ 2:30pm.
Performed in English with English supertitles.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit MSM's website or call (917) 493-4428.