Matthew Aucoin News
American composer
- piano
- United States of America
- composer, conductor, university teacher
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2024-04-24
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-04 02:24:46
Carolyn Abbate opens “In Search of Opera” (2001) linking the genre of opera with the butchery that severs Orpheus’ voice from his dismembered body. Sarah Ruhl, in her 2003 play “Eurydice,” and now Matthew Aucoin in his operatic setting of her text, cleave Eurydice from Orpheus, voice from instrumental music, and memory from body. The [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-29 22:25:01
Visiting Aucoin’s Underworld
Boston area favorite-son composer Matthew Aucoin reached a pinnacle of recognition in November of 2021 at the Metropolitan Opera, where his opera Eurydice (book and libretto by Sarah Ruhl) vividly and artfully retold the Orpheus-plus myth from the tragedienne’s perspective. The underworld has never since been the same. “It’s not surprising that a tale about the greatest musician in history, a man who could make the very stones weep when he performed, keeps appealing to his descendants. The scenario offers composers a wedding party, a tragic death, an evocation of what lies beyond, an attempt at resurrection, a plangent lament — opportunities to shine, and to place themselves in a grand tradition.” NYT 2021 For the Boston Lyric Opera’s production, Aucoin reduced the orchestration demands considerably, but according to our interview subject, award-winning bass-baritone Mark S. Doss*, who plays the newly added role of Eurydice’s father, “…the sound is quite incredible.” […]
2023-09-12 01:30:00
Met Commission
[…] September 26 with Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, features more contemporary work than any other season in modern Met history.For more information about the Met season and the Met/LCT New Works Program, visit metopera.org. The Met/LCT New Works ProgramThe Met/LCT New Works Program, founded in 2006, has provided developmental resources for many composers and librettists. The program has overseen the creation of several new operas, including Two Boys, composed by Nico Muhly with a libretto by Craig Lucas; Eurydice, composed by Matthew Aucoin with a libretto by Sarah Ruhl, based on her play; and Grounded, composed by Jeanine Tesori with a libretto by George Brant, based on his play—all three produced by the Met. Intimate Apparel, composed by Ricky Ian Gordon with a libretto by Lynn Nottage, based on her play, was produced by Lincoln Center Theater. Other projects in development include new works by Joshua Schmidt and Dick Scanlan; David. T. Little and Royce Vavrek; Carlos Simon and […]
2022-11-17 22:35:00
[…] for its “power and ringing high notes” (Cincinnati Business Courier). Cardamone has performed with the Merola Opera Program, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Columbus, Wolf Trap Opera and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Leading roles include Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi), Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola), Jeník (The Bartered Bride), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) and Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni). He has been a member of Opera Fusion: New Works and was part of the first workshops/studio recordings for Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice (co-commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera and Los Angeles Opera), Scott Davenport Richards’ Blind Injustice and Kevin Puts’ The Hours (co-commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra). Cardamone is a three-time Central Region Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and was sole recipient of the Regional Encouragement Award in 2017. He is also a three-time Corbett Competition award winner. Cardamone earned his Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Youngstown State University, with a double major in voice and French […]
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