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65/100Critics
81/100Scholars
Author:
Matthew Aucoin
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
December 7, 2021
A user's guide to opera, Matthew Aucoin describes the creation of his new work, "Eurydice", and shares his reflections on the past, present, and future of opera.
What The Reviewers Say
... neither dry-as-dust scholarship nor gushing, gossipy opera dish, although it packs plenty of historical knowledge, stylistic analysis and enthusiastic personal details into its pages.
Aucoin happily wrestles with multiple impossibilities in this highly personal book. In vivid, granular detail, he explores composers and operas he loves.
... the second chapter, 'Primal Loss,' offers a profound meditation that ends with Harrison Birtwistle’s The Mask of Orpheus.
Aucoin speaks eloquently from his own experience as composer, conductor, writer, and pianist.
