The Marriage of Figaro

Featuring Matthew Aucoin AB'12, Conductor

August 17, 2024

 Experience the talents of Matthew Aucoin AB'12 as he conducts the Aspen Music Festival production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.

You can learn more about Matthew in a 2022 Harvard Magazine article: Music and Language, Reconciled  Matthew Aucoin on opera     Matthew Aucoin in Harvard Magazine and in the short bio below.

Please purchase your tickets to the performance directly from the Aspen Music Festival:

Aspen Music Festival website:  Aspen Music Festival - Marriage of Figaro 2024

A pre-performance gathering is planned for Harvard alumni and guests:

Date: August 17, 2024

Time: 5:00PM

Event: RMHUC Pre-Performance Reception

Cost: Drinks and dinner available for purchase

Location: Living Room Bar @ Hotel Jerome

• 330 E Main St. Aspen, CO 81611

Please RSVP below if you plan to attend to pre-performance event.

For any questions, please contact Chris Nolan ALB'23 by email or cell

Opera ... plus!

Also: Chris Nolan has curated a list of scheduled events from the August 16-18 Festival.  You can find his helpful list at this PDF of Music Festival Events

OPERA PROGRAM
MOZART: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492

The Aspen Opera Theatre and Vocal ARTS program presents a fully-staged performance of Mozart’s comic masterpiece in the charming and intimate Wheeler Opera House, directed by Sara Erde and conducted by Matthew Aucoin AB’12.

With a plot as relevant today as it was in the 18th century, the lascivious Count uses his status to take advantage of people, especially women. In the runup to the wedding between his servants Figaro and Susanna, the Count hopes to revive the custom of the “right of the lord” to have his way with Susanna. The crafty Figaro, with help from Susanna and the Countess, foils his plans. Chaos and subplots ensue, leading to a touching conclusion and joy all around.

See tomorrow’s vocal stars in one of the most delightful operas of all time!

FEATURED ARTISTS
Matthew Aucoin, conductor
Sara Erde, director

Performance Location: Wheeler Opera House, 320 East Hyman Avenue Aspen, CO 81611

Matthew Aucoin

Matthew Aucoin is a Harvard College graduate of the Class of 2012 where he lived in Kirkland House.

As a Harvard undergraduate, he was a composer, conductor, and prize-winning poet, always focused on opera, the confluence of language and music. He composed not one, but two pieces for the undergraduate course “First Nights: Five Performance Premiers” (see “First Nights,” January-February 2000, page 52). He conducted the first

(Music for Mike, 2011) and performed as pianist in the second (Its Own Accord, 2016, co-commissioned by Dumbarton Oaks).
 

He is an American composer, conductor, and writer, and a 2018 MacArthur Fellow. He is a co-founder of the pathbreaking American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), and was the Los Angeles Opera’s artist-in-residence from 2016 to 2020.

As a composer, Aucoin is committed to expanding the possibilities of opera as a genre. His own operas, including Eurydice and Crossing, have been produced at the Metropolitan Opera, the Los Angeles Opera, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Canadian Opera Company. The Metropolitan Opera’s recording of Eurydice was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2023.

Please RSVP for pre-performance gathering on August 17, 2024:

Please RSVP below to let us know you plan to attend.