The director, one of the most influential in opera, is staging new productions in New York, France and Austria this summer. By Zachary Woolfe The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and ...

The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music for New Bodies.” By Joshua Barone Leonard Bernstein blazed a trail ...

LOS ANGELES — Composer Matthew Aucoin began working on “Crossing,” his first opera, when he was in college. It was a work of enormous talent, exciting promise and considerable hubris: Aucoin wrote his ...

From March 1 to March 10, Boston Lyric Opera presented a new production of “Eurydice,” which originally premiered at Los Angeles Opera in 2020. The golden child of Boston-born composer Matthew A.

The terms “polymath” and “multi-hyphenate” can hardly come close to describing Douglas G. Fitch ’81. Throughout his career, Fitch has worked as an visual artist, actor, architect, puppeteer, set and ...

“She’s not the best singer in the world.” This is one of the few lines that describes the title character of Sarah Ruhl’s poetic and emotionally rich 2003 play “Eurydice,” the basis for a recent opera ...

Eurydice (Sydney Mancasola) arrives in the underworld in Boston Lyric Opera's production of "Eurydice." (Courtesy Nile Scott Studios) Memory is a delicate thing. Some of our recollections are so ...

When composer Matthew Aucoin’s “Eurydice” first played New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the production boasted an offstage chorus and an orchestra of around 70 players. Hailed as an “arresting tour de ...

As a child, Matthew A. Aucoin ’12 started off as many classical musicians do — with piano lessons. Soon, however, he realized he had the irresistible urge to create, rather than replicate, the notes ...

About to ascend back to the living, Eurydice, played by Sydney Mancasola (right), calls out in fear to Orpheus, played by Elliot Madore (left), sealing her fate in BLO's production of "Eurydice." ...

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The six nominees for Best Musical Theater Album at the 65th annual Grammy Awards have been revealed. The composers and lyricists of the new scores, along with the producers, were included in the ...