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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

Berlin

A marriage crisis turned action comedy: a new Figaro at Staatsoper Berlin

By Zenaida des Aubris, 01 April 2021

Part of a new Da-Ponte trilogy, Le nozze di Figaro premieres online at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin

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Berlin

01 Apr 2021

A marriage crisis turned action comedy: Figaro in Berlin

By Zenaida des Aubris

London

A cunning little masterpiece from Rattle and the LSO

By Timmy Fisher, 27 June 2019

Messrs Rattle and Sellars bewitch the Barbican audience with a sumptuous rendition of Janáček's magnum opus.

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London

27 Jun 2019

A cunning little masterpiece from Rattle and the LSO

By Timmy Fisher

London

Rattle and Sellars revisit Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande

By Mark Valencia, 09 January 2016

A roster of star performers and a sprinkling of maestro magic turn this semi-staged concert into a memorable event. Shame about the big ideas.

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London

09 Jan 2016

Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in London

By Mark Valencia