Aucoin's 'Eurydice,' modern retelling of myth, opens at Met
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Matthew Aucoin’s “Eurydice" opens at the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday night in the first of seven performances running through Dec. 16
NEW YORK -- As Erin Morley sang on the big stage of the Metropolitan Opera, Matthew Aucoin sat in the first row of the orchestra, his score in front of him, taking notes.
Unlike most of her performances, Morley could use rehearsals to suggest adjusting notes to fit her soprano.
Known primarily for Verdi, Wagner, Mozart and Strauss, the Met is presenting three company premieres of 21st century works this season. Aucoin’s “Eurydice,” based on Sarah Ruhl’s 2003 play, opens Tuesday night in the first of seven performances running through Dec. 16. Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” opened the season, the Met's first work by a Black composer, and Brett Dean’s “Hamlet” will be presented in May.
Aucoin and Ruhl were paired by the composer’s sister, the playwright Christine Aucoin, and André Bishop, the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater, which commissioned the piece as part of its joint new works program with the Met.
