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Author Event: Matthew Aucoin in Conversation with Peter Sellars, Library and Labyrinth Livestream

Sunday December 19, 2021
3:00 PM

Acclaimed composer Aucoin and world renowned director Sellars discuss Aucoin's book "The Impossible Art" and his groundbreaking work "Eurydice" and share thoughts on the past and future of opera.

From its beginning, opera has been an impossible art and composer Matthew Aucoin, a rising star of the opera world, posits that it is this impossibility that gives opera its exceptional power and serves as its lifeblood. The virtuosity required of its performers, the bizarre and often spectacular nature of its stage productions, the creation of a whole world whose basic fabric is music—opera assumes its true form when it pursues impossible goals.

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