John Adams News

Minimalist American composer John Adams will make his Metropolitan Opera debut on Monday with "Doctor Atomic," which explores the final few hours before the explosion of the first atomic bomb on July 2, 1945.

John Adams will perform his John Denver tribute show Sunday at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen.

For many 20th-century composers, connecting with the audience wasn't high on the list of goals.

There was a shock of familiarity when speaking with Andris Nelsons for the first time.

Audio for today's show will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET. All Things Considered , October 4, 2008 - He's made Richard Nixon sing.

Thanks to the generosity of one of its board members, the Metropolitan Opera announced today that a number of prime orchestra seats, usually $175 - $220, will be available for $30 for all nine performances of ...

KATRINE AMES interviews the director of the Met's new Doctor Atomic . For someone still very new to opera, Penny Woolcock has led a decidedly operatic life: while she was in her teens, she was arrested for ...

Alex Ross , classical music critic for the New Yorker since 1996, author of The Rest is Noise and tireless champion of Otto Preminger's Laura and HBO's The Wire, just received an eye-bulging $500K gift from the ...

New principal conductor Paul Daniel will oversee one of the WA Symphony Orchestra's most imaginative and enterprising concert calendars next year.

Another season at the Met opens this week, and the somewhat traditional opener belies the fact that opera is actually opening up to more contemporary ideas.

A thousand flowers : In his seventh decade, John Adams's musical fertility still springs anew John Adams is 61.

Join us in a magical afternoon of John Denver's music featuring the legendary tribute singer John Adams on Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Lake Dillon Amphitheatre.

Ivan Hewitt on John Adams and his new memoir Hallelujah Junction A musician's memoir would probably not be your first choice for light reading, but make an exception for Hallelujah Junction, the memoirs of ...

New operas have become Events because they take so long to plan, collaborate, fundraise for and market.

Soprano Dawn Upshaw opens the Colorado Symphony's 2008-09 season this weekend with a program that ranges from Giuseppe Verdi and Johann Strauss Jr.

If you happen to have a copy of the August 25 New Yorker , don't miss this article by the composer John Adams, in which he discusses finding his compositional voice back in the 1970s and early 1980s.

The move is part of Vancouver Opera's new emphasis on contemporary work, commissions and slight gambles that may not guarantee full houses the way Carmen or La Boheme do - but certainly guarantee some notice.

This week's New Yorker magazine has an outstanding autobiographical piece by composer John Adams, best known for his operas such as 1987's Nixon in China and 2005's Doctor Atomic .

Ronen Givony, leader of Wordless Music, gave a brief introduction to the Magik*Magik/Benjamin Shwartz/Wordless Music/Radiohead-by-association concert at Herbst Theatre and talked how it was artificial to ...

Worcester native and renowned contemporary operatic composer John Adams has been named one of winners of the fourth annual Opera News Awards.