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Biography
John S. Bowman, librettist, was hooked on opera at age 15 after seeing his first Metropolitan production, Aida. At Harvard, he became directly involved by producing and translating operas for the Lowell House Music Society; with the army in Germany, he translated, produced, and staged operas under auspices of Special Services and the U.S. Information Agency; back in the States, he worked under Boris Goldovsky at Tanglewood, Pittsburgh, and on a tour with The Marriage of Figaro. In 1970, he and Mollicone collaborated on their first opera, Young Goodman Brown. After their 1978 collaboration on The Face..., they collaborated on a third work, Emperor Norton. A versatile writer, he is the author of numerous books including a guide to Crete, a book on Atlantis, and several more on the history of baseball. Bowman collaborated with composer Henry Mollicone to write the opera The Face on the Barroom Floor.
Productions
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