Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music for New Bodies.” ...

In mid-September 2004, James Conlon, a 54-year-old New Yorker who had just completed a nine-year appointment as music director of Paris Opera, got a surprising call from Plácido Domingo, the famous ...