parterre box

10 comments

• ianw2 says:

  Ha.

  I imagine Adamo is seething. Not a lot of bonhomie between those two. Also very curious about Adams’ new oratorio, since I adore El Nino.

  on February 10, 2011 at 12:10 AM
  • Belfagor says:

    So who in San Francisco will sing and be Mary?

    on February 10, 2011 at 7:33 AM
  • M says:

    Why? The press release, as well as the title, indicates the Adams is going to be about Mary the sister of Lazarus, not Magdalene, and--given the Sellars libretto, the Latin American poetry, the three countertenors—it gives every indication of being Nino 2. They seem pretty apples and oranges to me.

    on February 10, 2011 at 10:11 AM
    • ianw2 says:

      Logically, you’re absolutely right. But the titles are so similar as to very likely irritate.

      on February 10, 2011 at 12:28 PM
• m. croche says:

  Jesus.

  on February 10, 2011 at 12:18 AM
• vendorune says:

  judging by Nixon it will have the magic dragon in it somewhere

  on February 10, 2011 at 12:38 AM
• verliebtenmadeleine says:

  I’d take Adams over Adamo any day.

  on February 10, 2011 at 12:55 AM
  • Belfagor says:

    but for me, John Luther Adams is the most interesting of all -- but I don’t think such an outdoors man would bother himself with something so bourgeois and urban as opera…….

    on February 10, 2011 at 7:31 AM
    • ianw2 says:

      JLA would, but nobody can afford Prudhoe Bay’s fees.

      on February 10, 2011 at 12:30 PM
      • Belfagor says:

        ? With all those oil fields there, might he not build his own temple to the art…?

        on February 10, 2011 at 12:40 PM