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Mark Adamo’s most recent premiere is Four Angels: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, introduced by the National Symphony Orchestra in June of 2007. His second opera, Lysistrata: or, The Nude Goddess, after Aristophanes, made its East Coast debut in March 2006 at New York City Opera, at which Mark completed his fifth year as composer-in-residence in March 2006: Lysistrata was commissioned and introduced by Houston Grand Opera for its fiftieth-anniversary season in March 2005. Since its 1998 premiere, also by Houston Grand Opera, Little Women, the first opera for which he composed both music and libretto, has been nationally telecast on the PBS series Great Performances, released on CD by Ondine Records, and heard in over fifty-five national and international engagements from New York to Mexico City, Minneapolis, Adelaide, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo: including two for which he served as stage director.

Choral work includes Cantate Domino, commissioned by the Choral Arts Society of Washington and introduced at the Kennedy Center in 2000: Garland, for Francisco Nunez and the Young People’s Chorus of New York, introduced in 2006; and Supreme Virtue, recorded by Seattle’s Esoterics and released in spring 2008. In October 2007 Eclipse Chamber Orchestra completed recording an all-Adamo compact disk for Naxos, including the first recordings of Late Victorians, his symphonic cantata for singing voice, speaking voice, and chamber orchestra: Alcott Music, from Little Women, for strings, harp, celesta, and percussion; Regina Coeli, for harp and strings; and the Overture to Lysistrata. Mark lives in Manhattan and in Kent Cliffs, New York: his music is published by Fluent Music and by G. Schirmer.