This Jan. 25, 2020 photo released by the LA Opera shows Danielle de Niese, foreground center, with Kevin Ray, background from left, Raehann Bryce-Davis and Stacey Tappan as the Three Stone sduring a ...
Two things about Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice,” his 1762 opera, are not only the power and beauty of its melodies but also the sensation in a listener that the 260-year-old work is surprisingly ...
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 ...
Aucoin, 31, is a polymath: the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, he's a pianist, conductor, composer, impresario and writer. And he loves opera—even if he finds it an "impossible" art form. "I ...
The most enduringly popular opera by German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orphée et Eurydice recounts the famous myth of Orpheus, the legendary Greek musician and poet who is grief-stricken over ...
The world’s oldest surviving opera, Jacopo Peri’s “Euridice,” was written 420 years ago. On Saturday night at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles Opera presented the premiere of the world’s ...
In 2016, Los Angeles Opera offered a three-year appointment to Matthew Aucoin as the company’s first composer in residence. A Harvard graduate, he arrived in LA at the age of 26 already hailed as one ...
The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has inspired operas from the beginning of the art form, more than 400 years ago. Tonight, the Metropolitan Opera in New York City plays host to a new iteration: ...
In 2016, Los Angeles Opera offered a three-year appointment to Matthew Aucoin as the company’s first composer in residence. A Harvard graduate, he arrived in LA at the age of 26 already hailed as one ...
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