John Adams: El Niño(2000)

movie - first aired/released 2000-12-15 - 118 min - audience 10.0

Music, Documentary

Directed by Peter Maniura, Peter Sellars

Headlined by Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Willard White and orchestrated by the Berlin German Symphony Orchestra, this Nativity oratorio from composer John Adams tells the magical story of the birth of Christ. Conducted by renowned maestro Kent Nagano, this moving experience draws on both Old World and New World sources to re-create this influential story, highlighted by Adams’s trademark minimalism and melody.