“Music for New Bodies” at Meany Center
November 1, 2025
Meany Center – Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater
Seattle, WA
Matthew Aucoin’s Music for New Bodies (2024) is an uncategorizable work of music-theater: part opera, part song cycle, part vocal symphony. Based on poetry by Jorie Graham, the piece is a portrait of our moment in history as seen through the eyes of a cancer patient undergoing a drastic medical procedure. As the patient experiences the transformation of her own body, she meditates on questions that range from the personal to the cosmic: in a time when life is more and more virtual, what does it mean to have a body? And above all, after our species has poisoned the planet with uncountable toxins, can we still listen to what the earth has to tell us?
Matthew Aucoin*, Composer and Conductor
Peter Sellars, Stage Director
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