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Environmental devastation set to song: Matthew Aucoin's Music for New Bodies

By Kurt Gottschalk, 10 July 2025

Aucoin, librettist Jorie Graham and director Peter Sellars make New Bodies more a haunting mood piece than a cautionary tale for the American Modern Opera Company.

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New York City

10 Jul 2025

Matthew Aucoin's Music for New Bodies at Lincoln Center

By Kurt Gottschalk

New York City

Davóne Tines saves the day in the Met Museum’s effective, if dated, El Cimarrón

By Kurt Gottschalk, 10 May 2019

El Cimarrón proved worthy of both stage and museum, presenting the story of Esteban Montejo, born into slavery in Cuba in 1869 and later escaping to live in the forest.

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New York City

10 May 2019

Davóne Tines saves the day in the Met Museum’s El Cimarrón

By Kurt Gottschalk