'El Niño' by John Adams: The Nativity in Verse and Music
THE INTRODUCTION
THE HIT SINGLE: "A Palm Tree"
The opera's final number combines poetry by Rosario Castellanos with a story from the Apocryphal Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew. In the story, the holy family is fleeing through the desert to Egypt, hungry and thirsty. At a command from the infant Jesus, a palm tree bends down to share it fruit, and produces cool streams of water from its roots.