Barry Banks as Hades and Erin Morley as Eurydice, with Ronnita Miller, Stacey Tappan and Chad Shelton as the chorus of stones in Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhll’s “Eurydice,” which premiered at the Met on Tuesday night. (Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera)

The Metropolitan Opera – Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mary Zimmerman’s production of Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice

This Metropolitan Opera performance marked the New York premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice, a co-commission and co-production with LA Opera where it received its world premiere in February of 2020. With a libretto by Sarah Ruhl, adapted from her acclaimed 2003 play of the same title, it is an absorbing, often witty take on the Orpheus myth, …

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