John Adams’ Nativity oratorio ‘El Nino’ gets colorful staging at the Met
NEW YORK — The children crumple and fall to the stage, victims of King Herod’s assassins. Then the Virgin Mary, in a voice brimming with anguish and outrage, memorializes the student protesters who were massacred by Mexican armed forces in 1968. This is “El Nino,” a retelling of the birth and early life of Jesus […]