Mark Adamo (born 1962) is an American composer, librettist, and professor of music composition at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
[2] He attended New York University, where he received the Paulette Goddard Remarque Scholarship for outstanding undergraduate achievement in playwriting.
Lysistrata, hailed as "a sumptuous love story, poised between comedy and heartbreak" by Alex Ross of The New Yorker,[3] was David Gockley's last commission for the Houston Grand Opera, which gave the world premiere on 4 March 2005.
Since its 1998 premiere by Houston Grand Opera, "Little Women" has been heard in over sixty-five international engagements, including a telecast over the PBS series "Great Performances" in August 2001.
[5] Adamo has lived with his husband, the composer John Corigliano, in New York City;[6] the two were married in Santa Cruz, California by the conductor Marin Alsop during the 2008 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.