Tom Cipullo
Composer
Composer Tom Cipullo has been hailed by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his operas’ ”inexhaustible imagination, wit, expressive range and originality.” He is the winner of a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2013 Sylvia Goldstein Award from Copland House, and the 2013 Arts & Letters Award from the American Academy. With librettist David Mason, he has created two operas for MOR: After Life (2015), which received the 2018 National Opera Association’s prestigious Domenick Argento Chamber Opera Award, and The Parting (2019). MOR has also performed his monodrama Josephine. Cipullo’s breakout opera Glory Denied (2006) was based on the true story of a Vietnam veteran who was America’s longest-held prisoner of war.