“Rising Waters/Rising Voices” is Boston Lyric Opera’s new initiative to address climate change. Boston Lyric Opera plans to use its stages and its community position to call attention to and motivate action to mitigate the climate crisis. “Rising Waters/Rising Voices” kicks off Oct. 19 and 20 during Fort Point Open Studios, where the company will welcome visitors to its new {…}
Boston Lyric Opera is set to present a new production of Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl’s “Eurydice.” Opening on March 1 and running for two weeks through the 10 at the Huntington Theatre, the opera will be presented in a new orchestral arrangement by Aucoin; this is the first time this version of the opera gets a showcase. Audiences will {…}
(Credit: Marty Sohl / Met Opera) On March 16, 2022, The Center for Fiction and Theatre Communications Group will co-present Sarah Ruhl and Matthew Aucoin in conversation. The discussion will be held at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, and will explore the Ruhl’s and Aucoin’s recent collaboration on the operatic adaptation of Ruhl’s book, “Eurydice,” which recently made its {…}
(Credit: Marty Sohl / Met Opera) Let’s cut to the chase. The Orpheus story is one of the most famous in all of Greek mythology. A musician loses his wife, creates glorious music that moves the gods, and gets a chance to win her back. In the world of opera, this particular story has unsurprisingly been the inspiration for many {…}
(Credit: Marty Sohl / Met Opera) On Nov. 23, 2021, the Metropolitan Opera is set to present the company premiere of Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl’s “Eurydice.” Aucoin will make history as the youngest composer to have a Met premiere since 1938. “Eurydice” is one of three contemporary works to have premieres in the 2021–22 season, the greatest number of {…}
On Nov. 17, 2021, The Center for Fiction and The Theatre Communications Group will present “Sarah Ruhl and Matthew Aucoin in Conversation.” The two will discuss their collaboration on adapting Ruhl’s play “Eurydice” as an opera. This event is the fourth collaboration between The Center for Fiction and The Theatre Communications Group and will be rebroadcast as part of TCG {…}
(Photo: Paola Kudacki) Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum in New York continues its fall 2021 season with the Metropolitan Opera on Nov. 1 with a 60-minute inside look at composer Matthew Aucoin and librettist Sarah Ruhl’s “Eurydice.” The Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Orpheus uses the power of music to save his beloved Eurydice from {…}
There is a famous painting by Gustave Moreau called “Thracian Girl Carrying the Head of Orpheus on His Lyre” from 1865. The foreground shows exactly what the title describes. The background is harder to make out: some people are gathered on a cliff, one of them playing an aulos. Small tortoises walk near the Thracian woman’s feet, happily sauntering about {…}
(Credit: Steven Laxton) The Getty Villa Museum will present “Play to Libretto: Sarah Ruhl’s ‘Eurydice’ on Feb. 2, 2020. The reading of the stage place by Sarah Ruhl is part of the LA Opera’s “Eurydice Found,” an LA Festival dedicated to contextualizing the many aspects of the famed Greek myth of Orpheus and his wife Euridice. In addition to a {…}