Sellars, Peter

Review: John Adams’s ‘El Niño’ Arrives at the Met in Lush Glory

The opera-oratorio, an alternate Nativity story, featured a flurry of Met debuts, including the director Lileana Blain-Cruz and the conductor Marin Alsop.

By Oussama Zahr

Blain-Cruz, Lileana El Nino (Opera) Gelb, Peter Metropolitan Opera Opera Sellars, Peter

Lileana Blain-Cruz Directs ‘El Niño’ For Her Met Opera Debut

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.

By Joshua Barone and Lila Barth

Classical Music Dacamera Graham, Jorie Music for New Bodies (Musical Work) Poetry and Poets Sellars, Peter

Jorie Graham’s Poetry of the Earth and Humanity, Set to 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.”

By Joshua Barone

Black People Bullock, Julia Classical Music Costanzo, Anthony Roth El Nino (Opera) Juilliard School Metropolitan Opera Opera Sellars, Peter Tines, Davone

A Pathbreaking Singer Arrives at the Met, With Pearls and Tattoos

Davóne Tines, who stars in the oratorio “El Niño,” is challenging traditions in classical music and using art to confront social problems.

By Javier C. Hernandez