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    Eurydice

    Dec 17, 2021 2 minutes

    “I always liked words,” reminisces a wistful Eurydice, title heroine of Matthew Aucoin’s new operatic retelling of the classic mythic tale, its words crafted by playwright Sarah Ruhl. “Words and books and stories. Words were my music. But … Orpheus never liked words. He had his music.” That’s an in-a-nutshell statement of a problem facing this conflicted, dead-on-her-wedding-day bride, recollecting their relationship from the Underworld: she’s a bookworm, he’s a

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