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.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
An eye-popping ‘El Niño’ at the Met paints the Nativity at grand scale
John Adams’s 2000 opera-oratorio comes to eye-popping life in a new Met production by director Lileana Blain-Cruz
Review by Michael Andor Brodeur