CLINT JOSEPH BORZONI is an award- winning composer whose “highly original yet lyrical music…[and] natural gift for melody and harmonic structure” (The Huffington Post) has resulted in international performances and premieres.

He has collaborated with librettist John de los Santos on the opera “When Adonis Calls.” The lyrical opera (fashioned entirely from the poetry of Gavin Geoffrey Dillard), was selected for inclusion by Fort Worth Opera’s Frontiers and Opera America’s New Works Forum. The world premiere at the Asheville Lyric Opera sold out, and was followed by a collaborative new production in Chicago between Thompson Street Opera and Pride Films & Plays.

Their second collaboration, “The Copper Queen,” won the Arizona Spark competition, and was slated to open the McDougall RED Series in the 2020/21 Season— excerpts were recently performed at the American Lyric Theater’s Alumni concert, with a third sold-out workshop at Opera America. Arizona Opera is making an ambitious turn toward film by producing a motion picture adaptation of the company’s second world premiere commission, The Copper Queen.  Arizona Opera—along with the opera’s creators and its all-female production team, led by director Crystal Manich—have joined forces with longtime video partner and creative agency Manley Films, to create a feature-length film of the opera.

Clint and John are currently in development with The American Opera Project on a new holiday opera, “The Christmas Spider”. Other operatic works include “Margot Alone in the Light,” an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s story “All Summer in a Day” (premiered by operamission and subsequently produced by Opera On Tap); and “Antinous and Hadrian” (commissioned by operamission). The orchestra suite based on “Antinous and Hadrian” won the Queer Urban Orchestra’s 2018 composition competition, and will be performed by the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra next season.

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