Death of ‘one of the most distinctive American opera composers’

Death of ‘one of the most distinctive American opera composers’

RIP

norman lebrecht

May 17, 2022

We have been informed that Henry Mollicone died last week after a long illness. Henry was 76.

He wrote a number of one-act operas, of which The Face on the Barroom Floor was widely performed.

The headline quote is from the Washingon Post.

Like so many others, he started out as a Leonard Bernstein assistant.

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