John Adams' Nativity oratorio 'El Nino' gets colorful staging at the Met
by Mike Silverman
Apr 18, 2024
3 minutes
The children crumple and fall to the stage, victims of King Herod’s assassins. Then the Virgin Mary, in a voice brimming with anguish and outrage, memorializes the student protesters who were massacred by Mexican armed forces in 1968.
This is “El Nino,” a retelling of the birth and early life of Jesus through a mix of biblical verses and modern Latin American poetry, medieval texts and apocrypha.
Set to music by from a libretto compiled by him and Peter Sellars, it is having its Metropolitan Opera premiere
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