The New York Times – Music:
The opera-oratorio, an alternate Nativity story, featured a flurry of Met debuts, including the director Lileana Blain-Cruz and the conductor Marin Alsop.
Category: Sellars, Peter
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Lileana Blain-Cruz Directs ‘El Niño’ For Her Met Opera Debut
The New York Times – Music:
In an interview, Blain-Cruz explained why an oratorio like John Adams and Peter Sellars’s “El Niño” is more difficult to stage than the usual opera.
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Jorie Graham’s Poetry of the Earth and Humanity, Set to Music
The New York Times – Music:
The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music for New Bodies.”
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A Pathbreaking Singer Arrives at the Met, With Pearls and Tattoos
The New York Times – Music:
Davóne Tines, who stars in the oratorio “El Niño,” is challenging traditions in classical music and using art to confront social problems.
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When Henry Kissinger Became a Character in an Opera
The New York Times – Music:
In 1987, “Nixon in China” meditated on what was then recent history, depicting Kissinger as a smooth diplomat with a brutal side.
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Review: Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Adriana Mater,’ After Her Death
The New York Times – Music:
The conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the director Peter Sellars, two Saariaho collaborators, brought “Adriana Mater” to the San Francisco Symphony.
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Review: In ‘Monochromatic Light,’ Artists Saturate and Vacate Space
The New York Times – Music:
Tyshawn Sorey’s music, initially written with Mark Rothko’s abstractions in mind, comes to the Park Avenue Armory with art by Julie Mehretu.
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A Work of Mourning Comes to New York, With No Rothkos in Sight
The New York Times – Music:
Tyshawn Sorey’s “Monochromatic Light (Afterlife),” written for the Rothko Chapel in Houston, becomes longer and grander for the Park Avenue Armory.