Performances

June 22, 2023
8:00 PM
The Met Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, plays the world premiere of Aucoin’s new orchestral work, Lear Sketches.
BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
MATTHEW AUCOIN Lear Sketches (World Premiere)
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
VERDI Otello, Act IV
Russell Thomas (Otello)
Renée Fleming (Desdemona)
June 27, 2023
8:00 PM
The Met Orchestra gives the European premiere of Aucoin’s Lear Sketches, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, at Paris’s Philharmonie.
BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
AUCOIN Lear Sketches
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet
VERDI Otello, Act 4
Russell Thomas, Otello
Renée Fleming, Desdemona
June 29, 2023
The Met Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, performs Aucoin’s Lear Sketches at London’s Barbican Centre.
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet
AUCOIN Lear Sketches
BERLIOZ Selections from Les Troyens
VERDI Otello, Act 4
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano (Berlioz)
Russell Thomas, Otello
Renée Fleming, Desdemona
July 2, 2023
The Met Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, performs Aucoin’s Lear Sketches at Baden-Baden’s Festspielhaus.
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet
AUCOIN Lear Sketches
BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
VERDI Otello, Act 4
Russell Thomas, Otello
Renée Fleming, Desdemona
Aug. 19, 2023
10:00 AM
Together with fellow composer Christopher Theofanidis, Matt will lead a contemporary opera workshop at the Aspen Music Festival and School.
Nov. 1, 2023
1:00 PM
Pianist George Xiaoyuan Fu plays the UK premiere of Matt’s solo piano piece The tracks have vanished.
RACHMANINOV Suite from Violin Partita in E by J.S. Bach: Gavotte
FU Transformation on “Gigue” from Bach’s Violin Partita No. 2
AUCOIN The tracks have vanished (UK premiere)
DEBUSSY Études