Hoiby’s operas included Summer and Smoke, adapted from the play by Tennessee Williams, asNatalia Petrovna (later revised and retitled A Month in the Country), The Scarf, Something New for the Zoo, The Tempest, and This Is the Rill Speaking. He wrote an opera based on Romeo and Juliet, which has not yet been performed, and also wrote numerous choral works.
He is survived by his partner, Mark Shulgasser.
