Adams’s El Niño. Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera
My Musical America review of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of John Adams’s El Niño has now been posted:
NEW YORK—At the end of El Niño’s opening chorus, during the transition to the Annunciation scene, the orchestra begins to vibrate in steadily intensifying waves of ecstatic energy—a moment of sonic transfiguration that is one of the signatures of the composer John Adams. …
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MEMETERIA by Thomas May 