that’s exactly how airplanes work.

You people do not appreciate music. Christ, composers are USUALLY ECCENTRIC. And how does that detract from this performance? People like you always think the pinnacle of music has already been reached by composers like Mozart or Puccini but they were innovators who understood music would change and keep changing after their deaths. They would have probably more open to listening to this music than you. Damn hipsters.

I don’t care what anyone says. I just LOVE this! The harmonies are so entrancing

@marineproductions1 if he smoked weed he would have come up with a WAY cooler show…

@marineproductions1 Having met John Adams twice, it seems like he might have done a few things back in the day…

ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!!!!

@bluetagg I done seen it twice now.

@yerejay I see where you’re coming from, but it could just as easily be argued that such casting concerns have NEVER mattered in opera performance. Does that mean that they shouldn’t matter to modern opera? No, of course not. Your point is well-taken, but if you allow your point to overwhelm what Adams accomplished here, you’ll miss the point entirely.

@ezev8logos: Couldn’t agree more…emphasis on the weird.

@bluetagg im not–where are words? chinese is difficult but still should be repeatable. opera was created to be different from barbarian multivoices without understandable words. words with emotional melody , tune of talking, expression in intonations.  not a “wua wua awuo awuo …”–take a donkey and he would beat all Your singers in such singing. capito ?

@Danro05 no. Chemistry actually just an enthusiast. you have just demonstrated the same grouping fallacy. you’re bad at this

@Danro05 A quick glance at his score would dispel that claim, unless you’d be willing to characterize Chopin Beethoven, Pachelbel, Ravel, Wagner, Schoenberg, and countless others as minimalist. Infact any genre distinction is just silly. Schoenberg is called serialist, but he wrote many of the world’s most brilliant tonal works; Chopin is widely regard as the quintessential romantic, but He despised the entire romantic philosophy and did not give his works any romantic titles. The list goes on..

@neatodd not being present to see this one in person, I can’t honestly agree or disagree, but Adams was a far greater conductor that I would’ve imagined.