Composer Catan dies at the age of 62

12 April 2011 last updated at 10: 57 GMT Daniel Catan, has Mexican composer best known for his operatic adaptation of the Italian film IL Postino for the Los Angeles Opera, died at the age of 62.

The native Mexico City Austin has been working on an Opera from the University of Texas in order given.

Il Postino, Sung in Spanish, Plácido Domingo, winning rave reviews it opened last year.

Catan am composed symphonies and I you lose film, with Frank Langella score-1998.

He had an opera based on the 1941 Frank Capra film meet John Doe worked.

In 1994, the first Mexican composer, his opera in the United States conducted Catan, if the San Diego have produced the Opera Rappaccini's daughter.

The cause of death has not been released.

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