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 ...

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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

“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 ...

For opera fans who can’t wait for our own Opera in Williamsburg’s November showing of “Orfeo ed Euridice,” take note. The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcasts for 2025-26 begin Oct. 18 at the ...