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Elliot Goldenthal (born May 2 1954 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American composer of contemporary music and has written works for concert hall, theater, dance and film. Having been a student of both Aaron Copland and John Corigliano, Goldenthal is best known for his ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original ways.

His work includes music for films such as Alien³, Michael Collins, Heat and the Academy Award-winning score for Julie Taymor's Frida.

The Tony-Award winning carnival mass Juan Darièn (1988) and The Green Bird, based on a story by Carlo Gozzi, are some of the composer's theater works.

He lives in New York City with his partner, Julie Taymor from 1982.

Recently, Goldenthal had completed his first opera with Taymor entitled Grendel, an adaptation of the John Gardner novel which told the story of Beowulf from the monster's point of view. It had its world premiere in early June 2006 at the Los Angeles Opera.

Major film works

• 1979 - Cocaine Cowboys
• 1980 - Blank Generation
• 1989 - Drugstore Cowboy
• 1989 - Pet Sematary
• 1992 - Alien³
• 1993 - Demolition Man
• 1993 - Golden Gate
• 1994 - Interview with the Vampire
• 1994 - Cobb
• 1995 - Batman Forever
• 1995 - Heat
• 1996 - Michael Collins
• 1996 - A Time to Kill
• 1997 - The Butcher Boy
• 1997 - Batman & Robin
• 1998 - In Dreams
• 1998 - Sphere
• 1999 - Titus directed by Julie Taymor
• 2001 - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
• 2002 - Frida directed by Julie Taymor
• 2002 - The Good Thief
• 2003 - S.W.A.T.

Awards and nominations for film works

• (2002) Academy Awards, Frida, Best Original Score
• (2002) Academy Award Nomination, Frida, "Burn It Blue" - Best Original Song
• (2002) Academy Award Nomination, Frida - Best Original Score
• (2002) Golden Globes , Frida - Best Original Score
• (1998) Chicago Film Critics Awards Nomination, The Butcher Boy - Best Original Score
• (1998) Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1998, The Butcher Boy - Best Original Score
• (1996) Academy Award Nomination, Michael Collins - Best Original Score
• (1996) Grammy Nomination, "Defile and Lament" from A Time to Kill
• (1996) Golden Globe Nomination, Michael Collins - Best Original Score
• (1995) Grammy Nomination, Batman Forever - Best Instrumental Composition
• (1994) Academy Award Nomination, Interview with the Vampire - Best Original Score
• (1994) Golden Globe Nomination, Interview with the Vampire - Best Original Score

Concert music (excerpts)

• 1988 - Shadow Play Scherzo
• 1988 - Pastime Variations
• 1996 - Fire Water Paper, A Vietnam Oratorio (recorded 1996 on Sony Classical, featuring Yo Yo Ma)
• 1998 - Othello (Ballet, with a choreography byLar Lubovitch; released 1998 on Varèse Sarabande)

• - The Transposed Heads (based on the Thomas Mann novel)
• - The King Stag
• - Liberty's Taken
• - Brass Quintet No. 1, Brass Quintet No. 2 (No. 2 has been recorded recently by Extension Ensemble, New York)

Theatre Works (Composer)

• Musical "Juan Darien" (1988 on Broadway, reworked and recorded 1996)
  Co-bookwriter, lyricist, arranger of the Latin text
  Tony Nomination for Best Original Score
• Musical "The Green Bird" (1999 on Broadway)
  Stage director: Julie Taymor
• Opera "Grendel" (2006 June at Los Angeles Opera, July at Lincoln Center)
  Libretto: Julie Taymor and J D. McClatchy, after the novel Grendel by John Gardner, and the poem Beowulf
  Stage director: Julie Taymor

External links

• Elliot Goldenthal at the Internet Broadway Dabatase
• "A Website for the Composer"

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