Other planned projects included a collaboration with Michael Charles Tobias on his libretto The Misadventures of Pinocchio. At the time of his death, Catán was a member of the faculty at College of the Canyons and had been commissioned by the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin to write a new opera, Meet John Doe.

His last opera, Il Postino, whose premiere featured Plácido Domingo in the role of Pablo Neruda, is based on the 1983 novel Ardiente paciencia by Antonio Skármeta and the 1994 film Il Postino by Michael Radford it premiered at the Los Angeles Opera in September 2010.Ĭatán died aged 62 on April 8, 2011, in Austin, Texas, a few days after he attended rehearsals for Il Postino at the Moores Opera Center at the University of Houston.

In 1998, Catán received the Plácido Domingo Award for his contribution to opera, and he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000. In addition to composition, Catán had a fruitful career as a writer on music and the arts, reflective of his knowledge of world literature. His music is richly lyrical, often painting evocative colours with the orchestral palette with soaring melodies atop. His style can be described as neo-impressionist. He has also composed orchestral andchamber works and film music. Randall, and Benjamin Boretz.Ĭatán was the first Mexican composer to have an opera produced in the United States, when San Diego Opera produced his opera Rappaccini's Daughter in March 1994. He received a Ph.D. from Princeton University, where he studied with Milton Babbitt, James K. He was born in Mexico City, and studied philosophy at the University of Sussex and music at the University of Southampton.

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