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Grammy Award - Best Opera Recording, 2016 Grammy Award - Best Engineered Album, Classical, 2016 Grammy Award nomination - Producer of the Year, Classical, 2016 "... a spotless aural image of a remarkable series of performances taken live from the stage of the LA Opera." - ClassicsToday.com "The LA Opera production is well cast, with strong contributions from soprano Patricia Racette, who is a dramatically effective ..." - Gramophone "Four Stars ... the biggest star remains the music itself. Listening to the ensemble numbers, all floating beauties, sparklingly orchestrated, you can only hope for a second Corigliano opera." - BBC Music Magazine "It's comic and serious, entertaining and erudite, silly and thoughtful, emotional and mysterious, harrowing and uplifting, intimate and over-the-top ... and the more times you see it, the more you'll find in it and the more you'll get out of it." - Los Angeles Times Recorded live in February 2015 to great critical acclaim, this double album features the LA Opera conducted by James Conlon on Corigliano's large-scale, extravagant work The Ghosts of Versailles. Both Corigliano and librettist William Hoffman conceived Ghosts as a work of music theatre that celebrates and even takes as one of its principal themes the artistic power of opera: it puts into use lavish operatic resources precisely to introduce a contemporary audience to grand opera. "The artists of LA Opera’s 2014 production made as compelling a case for The Ghosts of Versailles as I heard on its first night at the Met in 1991. To have that performance preserved in a recording of this quality is, for this composer, a dream come true." - John Corigliano