Michael Korie

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Full Name	Michael Korie
Occupation	Lyricist
Date Of Birth	Apr 1, 1955(1955-04-01)
Age	69
Country	United States
Birth City	Elizabeth
Horoscope	Aries

Michael Korie Biography

Michael Korie is one of the most popular and richest Lyricist who was born on April 1, 1955 in Elizabeth, United States. American librettist Michael Korie was born April 1, 1955. His opera writings include Far From Heaven and Grey Gardens, as well as the operas Harvey Milk (and The Grapes of Wrath). His works have been performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway and internationally. His lyrics were nominated for the Drama Desk Award and the Tony Award. He also won the Outer Critics Circle Award. Korie received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Marc Blitzstein Award in 2016.

Korie started a musical theater collaboration with Scott Frankel, concurrently with his opera work. Doll was their first collaboration. It depicted Oscar Kokoschka, a painter,’s fetishistic desire for a doll that could be used to carry him around, modeled after Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler’s widow. Doll received the Richard Rogers Development Award 1994. It was created at the Sundance Musical Theater Lab and staged at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival in 2003, under Lonny Price. The cast included Michael Cerveris, David Hyde Pierce, and Lonny Price.

Wallace and Korie’s next opera, the three-character ninety-minute Hopper’s Wife, imagines Josephine Hopper, wife of painter Edward Hopper, transformed into the gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. Of its premiere at Long Beach Opera in 1997, music critic Mark Swed wrote in The Los Angeles Times, “Korie offers exciting images and horribly crude ones side by side; clever rhymes intentionally confuse smut with art. Brave, bold and important.” Art in America said that the production “made a case for opera as a genuinely adult art form able to confront and decry the current ‘dumbed-down’ state of American culture.” In 2016, the newly revived New York City Opera selected the opera for its inaugural season, producing the work’s East Coast premiere at Harlem Stage in a production conducted by James Lowe and directed by Andreas Mitisek.

Performances followed at New York City Opera and San Francisco Opera. Joshua Kosman in The San Francisco Chronicle wrote of the SFO production, “By turns haunting and hilarious, brassy and mystically poetic, the libretto is a magnificent creation.” The opera was recorded by Teldec in 1998, with Donald Runnicles conducting.

Korie’s first major work received attention was a crossover opera called “Where’s Dick?”, which Stewart Wallace composed and created at Playwrights Horizons. The opera was a satire that turned current events into a comic-book world of villainy. It featured characters such as Stump Tower (based on Donald Trump) and Sterling and Stainless Tarnish Brothers, who were inspired by William Hunt and Lamar Hunt’s efforts to control the world silver market. In 1989, it premiered at Miller Outdoor Theater. It was a Houston Grand Opera production and was directed by Richard Foreman. Bernard Holland, a critic for The New York Times called it “the kind of musical stage work…we should be pursuing”. Leighton Kerner, Village Voice, described it as “a grisly comic accusation, both grotesques and sublime”.

Michael Korie Net Worth

Michael Korie is one of the richest Lyricist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Korie 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Korie was the son of Benjamin Indick and Janet Indick, and was born in Elizabeth (New Jersey). His father was a pharmacist and published scholarly essays about Stephen King and H. P. Lovecraft. His mother, a sculptor, is President Emeritus of National Association of Women Artists. He was born in Teaneck, New Jersey and graduated from Teaneck High School, in 1972. Korie studied music at Brandeis University, before moving to New York University’s journalism department. He was a journalist and editor for The Village Voice and other Manhattan weeklies in the mid-1970s. He was a journalist and his experiences in reporting influenced several of the works he would write that were based on nonfiction news figures.

Korie’s next collaboration was with Wallace: Kabbalah. It was conceived in seven musical segments or “gates” according Kabbalistic philosophy. To trace the development of Kabbalistic practice in the Jewish Diaspora, the work’s libretto was written in archaic languages. This includes Medieval French, German, early Spanish and Aramaic. The work’s 1989 premiere was co-produced by the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, and Dance Theater Workshop. Ann Carlson directed and choreographed. The New York Times’ John Rockwell said that Kabbalah might be more important because of what it promises rather than what it actually provides. However, even the benefits it offers have real merits.”

The opera premiered on January 21, 1995 at the Houston Grand Opera and generated controversy over the first presentation of openly gay love scenes on the operatic stage. The Chicago Tribune called it “one of the best new operas in years” and The Independent’s Edward Seckerson wrote “the libretto is among the sharpest in contemporary opera”. K. Robert Schwartz in The New York Times wrote “Harvey Milk is an unflinching in-your-face kind of opera, a work that examines not only Milk’s tragedy but the awakening of gay consciousness in America.”

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Grapes of Wrath was performed in an abridged concert version at Carnegie Hall on March 22, 2010. Ted Sperling conducted the American Symphony Orchestra, MasterVoices (formerly the Collegiate Chorale), and soloists from both Broadway and opera including Victoria Clark, Christine Ebersole, Elizabeth Futral, Steven Pasquale, and Nathan Gunn in the lead roles. Jane Fonda (whose father Henry Fonda played Tom Joad in the 1940 film adaptation of the novel) narrated. A reconceived and restructured version of the full opera, in two acts instead of three, will premiere in May, 2017 in a new production at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. It will be directed by James Robinson.

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The team’s best-known work, Grey Gardens, is the first musical to have been based on a documentary—the Albert and David Maysles documentary of the same name. With a book by playwright Doug Wright, Grey Gardens expanded upon the period documented in the film — Little Edie and Big Edie Beale living in a crumbling and decrepit mansion in East Hampton — by adding a hypothesized first act which imagined the engagement reception of Little Edie and Joseph Kennedy, Jr., at the mansion in its heyday thirty years before. Of making a musical out of a documentary, Korie was quoted as saying, “unlike in a movie, in the theater there are no close-ups. Music and lyrics provide an actor with the equivalent of a close-up on the screen, a defining gesture that stops time and glimpses momentarily into the soul.”

Top Facts about Michael Korie

1. Michael Korie is an American librettist and lyricist.
2. He has won multiple awards for his work in musical theater.
3. Korie’s most famous works include “Grey Gardens” and “War Paint.”
4. He often collaborates with composer Scott Frankel.
5. Korie was born in New York City in 1955.
6. He studied at Yale University and Columbia University.
7. Korie has also written operas, including “Harvey Milk” and “The Grapes of Wrath.”
8. His work often explores themes of identity, power, and social justice.
9. Korie has been nominated for several Tony Awards.
10. He is known for his sophisticated lyrics and complex characters.