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.

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 ...

Composer, conductor and MacArthur "genius" Mathew Aucoin just debuted his opera, 'Eurydice,' at the Met. The new work reinterprets an ancient,... In 'Eurydice,' Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl recast ...

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 ...