The Metropolitan Opera has announced the addition of three new composers to its Met/LCT New Works Program: Matthew Aucoin, David T. Little, and Joshua Schmidt. Two new premieres were also announced, namely Thomas Adès' The Exterminating Angel, to be seen in the 2017-18 season and Osvaldo Golijov's adaptation of the Euripides play Iphigenia in Aulis, which premieres in the 2018-19 season. Other contemporary works to be seen soon at the Met include John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer in the 2014-15 season and Kaija Saariaho's L'Amour de Loin in the 2016-17 season.
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6 responses to “New Music at the Met 2013”
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just wondering… where are the WOMEN?? good gracious.
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At least Saariaho is there. According to the press release she will become the first female composer to have her work performed at the Met since Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald had its Met premiere in 1903. Susanna Mälkki is conducting too.
But the gender balance is not quite even here, it is true.LikeLike
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Gender balance is awful. But at least better than… SF Opera. Have they ever performed an opera by a female composer? I can’t think of one. They had commissionned Jennifer Higdon for a Katrina opera, but then cancelled it.
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Outrageous! Next thing you know they’ll let women on stage and take away all the castrato roles!
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Death of Klinghoffer..I’m in. Already checking flights to NYC.
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Long Beach Opera is doing Death of Klinghoffer in its upcoming season.
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