[4] Corghi held the chair in composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and had many famous students, including Antonello Allemandi, Sonia Bo, Mauro Bonifacio, Paolo Cavallone, Alberto Colla, Girolamo Deraco, Silvia Colasanti [it], Ludovico Einaudi, Ivan Fedele, Daniele Gatti, Luca Francesconi, Fabio Mengozzi, Vito Palumbo, Marco Stroppa.
[1][7] He composed his second opera, Blimunda to a libretto by José Saramago who became his longtime friend and collaborator.
[1][7] It was first performed at La Scala in Milan in the 1989/90 season,[4] directed by Jérôme Savary[3] and conducted by Zoltán Peskó.
[2] The author, who would be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998,[3] and the composer worked together again on Divara – aqua e sangue, which was premiered at the Theater Münster, in German, on 31 October 1993.
[8] In 1999, Corghi was commissioned to compose an opera for La Scala, Tat'jana, based on Chekhov's play Tatyana Repina.
[2] He was commissioned in 2008 by Ensemble Punto to compose the opera Giocasta to celebrate the quincentenary of Andrea Palladio, to a libretto by Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis based on Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, because an opera with the subject by Andrea Gabrieli was performed when Palladio's Teatro Olimpico was opened in 1585; Giocasta was performed there on 19 June 2009.
The same year, he transcribed ariettas from Nuits d'été à Pausilippe for the bicentenary of Gaetano Donizetti.
[4] In 2000 he completed Amori incrociati after Aldo Busi's version of The Decameron, to be played by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra.
[10] La Scala reacted to his death stating that it joined "in the condolences of the Italian and international music world for the passing of Azio Corghi, composer, musicologist and teacher who was an undisputed protagonist of the contemporary music scene as well as of La Scala's programming".