Author:
Aucoin, Matthew, 1990- author.
Imprint:2021
Note:A Field Guide to the Impossible -- Primal Loss : Four Hundred Years of Orpheus and Eurydice in Opera -- The Firewood and the Fire : Words, Music, and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress -- Verdi's Shakespeare Operas -- Walt Whitman's Impossible Optimism -- Inner Rooms : Two Recent Impossibilities -- Finding Eurydice -- A Conversation with Sarah Ruhl -- Music as Forgiveness : Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro.
Note:"user's guide to opera-Matthew Aucoin, "the most promising operatic talent in a generation" (New York Times Magazine), describes the creation of his groundbreaking new work, Eurydice, and shares his reflections on the past, present, and future of opera"-- Provided by publisher.
