El Niño | Edinburgh classical review

Usher Hall, EdinburghThe central theme of this year's international festival is the European discovery of the Americas and Australasia, and the complex, sometimes tragic, political and cultural histories that resulted. The opening concert was given over to El Niño, John Adams's opera-oratorio, premiered in 2000, in which a collection of texts from Europe and South America form the basis for an examination of the implications of the Christian nativity for a troubled world at the start of the mil...

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