John Adams’s 2000 opera-oratorio “El Niño” comes to eye-popping life in a new Metropolitan Opera production by director Lileana Blain-Cruz.
J'Nai Bridges and Julia Bullock and Siman Chung, Key'mon W. Murrah and Eric Jurenas in the Metropolitan Opera's performance of “El Niño.” NEW YORK — Tisn’t remotely the season, but the Metropolitan Opera’s colorful new production of John Adams’s “El Niño” is good reason to celebrate Christmas in May.
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Projected textures lend the entire scene an undulating motion, a subtle vivacity that makes the story feel like a living thing. The chorus, outfitted to evoke leaves, adds to this amplified naturalism. And many of the production designs draw from this visceral vocabulary: glaring eyes stud the skies; a pair of descending wings in vascular pink neon descends from the heavens; a vaguely vaginal apparition haunts Joseph in a dream.
Bridges brought a more regal bearing to her Mary, her tone velvety and generously full, especially Castellanos’s “La anunciación,” atop a tempest of woodwinds and reaching trombones.
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