El Niño: Creative Team Feature
Ahead of the Met premiere of El Niño, composer John Adams
discusses his acclaimed opera-oratorio and director Lileana Blain-Cruz
describes her vibrant new production. 2023–24 season. Videography by Pete
Scalzitti and Neville Braithwaite.
Eminent American composer John Adams returns to the Met after a decade-long hiatus for the company premiere of his acclaimed opera-oratorio, which incorporates sacred and secular texts in English, Spanish, and Latin, from biblical times to the present day, in an extraordinarily dramatic retelling of the Nativity.
El Niño brings together three of contemporary opera’s
fiercest champions, all of whom make highly anticipated company debuts: Marin
Alsop, one of the great conductors of our time, who has led more than 200
new-music premieres; soprano Julia Bullock, a leading voice on and off stage;
and pathbreaking bass-baritone Davóne Tines. Radiant mezzo-sopranos J’Nai
Bridges and Daniela Mack take turns completing the principal trio.
The moving, fully-staged new production also marks the Met debut of Lileana Blain-Cruz, resident director at Lincoln Center Theater, who received universal acclaim for her Tony-nominated 2022 production of The Skin of Our Teeth.
Children’s Chorus: Young People’s Chorus of New York City (Francisco J. Núñez, Artistic Director and Founder; Emma H. Sway, Assistant Conductor)
Production a gift of C. Graham Berwind, III
El Niño is part of the Neubauer Family Foundation New Works
Initiative
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