Metropolitan Opera Adds Three Composers to New-Works Program, Commissions Operas by Thomas Adès and Osvaldo Golijov

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The Metropolitan Opera announced today the addition of three young composers to its collaborative workshopping program with Lincoln Center Theater, Met/LCT New Works Program, as well as two opera commissions and new productions of several modern operas that have been scheduled to play at the company in future seasons. 
Composers Matthew Aucoin, David T. Little and Joshua Schmidt have been selected to take part in the Met/LCT New Works Program, which utilizes the resources of the Met and Lincoln Center Theater to develop new opera and musical theater pieces. (Nico Muhly's Two Boys, which this month receives its Met premiere, was developed through the program.) Aucoin, the youngest assistant conductor in the history of the Met, is currently composing his third opera, which has been commissioned by the American Repertory Theater. Little's operas include Dog Days — which received its world premiere in 2012 — as well as a Fort Worth Opera commission that is currently titled JFK. Joshua Schmidt is the composer of the admired musical Adding Machine, which played off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theater in 2008. Schmidt's adaptation of Shaw's Candida, titled A Minister's Wife, was produced by Lincoln Center Theater in 2011. For the Met/LCT program, Schmit will work with Tony-nominated librettist Dick Scanlan, who penned the book and lyrics for Broadway's Tony Award-winning Thoroughly Modern Millie. 

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