John Adams' Nativity oratorio 'El Nino' gets colorful staging at the Met

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John Adams' Nativity oratorio 'El Nino' gets colorful staging at the Met
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Composer John Adams’ work is returning to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time in a decade in a new staging of his Nativity oratorio “El Nino.”.

Julia Bullock, center, and castmates rehearse for the Metropolitan Opera's production of"El Nino," on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in New York. El Nino opens April 23. – The children crumple and fall to the stage, victims of King Herod’s assassins.

“You have darkness happening,” she said, “and then you have the Christmas star and these high soprano notes and you go, ‘Oh it’s going to be OK, the world is so much bigger than us.’ I love that invigoration of life. That feeling of an antidote to loneliness and suffering.” The set for the first act evokes what Blain-Cruz calls “a greenish-blue floral jungle landscape that might be home to African or Caribbean people,” while the second is dominated by “orangish fiery colors influenced by a more desert vision, like the borderlands of Texas.”

For many audiences, the most searing moment will come after the slaying of the children when Bullock sings Adams’s setting of “Memorial de Tlatelolco” by Rosario Castellanos. “There’s usually this very driving pulse,” throughout his pieces, but here, she said, those moments of insistent “groove” alternate with “contemplative and pensive” sections.

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