Matthew Aucoin: Eurydice

OPERA
TUESDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 & DECEMBER 4, 2021 (continuing through DECEMBER 16)
7:00 PM TUESDAY
1:00 PM SATURDAY

Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$37-$460
https://www.metopera.org/season/2021-22-season/eurydice/

Sarah Ruhl's play Eurydice — telling the familiar Orpheus myth from the viewpoint of the deceased wife (and concluding that she might be better off in the Underworld with her beloved father than in the World married to a singing star) — was a stone delight. If in the past the appeal of lauded opera composer Matthew Aucoin has eluded me — Britten without the endless stream of invention, it seems to me — maybe THIS time I'll get it.

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