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‘Last Days’, the Royal Opera’s world premiere, draws on the life of the late Nirvana frontman
A top-notch cast excels in a story of romance, politics and death from the ‘Nixon in China’ composer
Yuja Wang brings scintillating finger-work to Adams’s new piano concerto in this high-octane recording
A collage of narrative and comment, a cultural summing-up of one of the turning points of 20th-century history
John Adams’s opera offers an arresting vision of California during the gold rush
This was the sound of an orchestra secure in its own identity
This year’s season kicked off with Beethoven, Adams — and a politically pointed encore
This concert performance of John Adams’ opera generated a buzz
A concert that showed the composer in a lighter vein
The LPO performed a well-planned overview of American musical history
As the US composer turns 70, his collaborators pay tribute
Explosive performances of Rebel, Milhaud and John Adams at the Royal Festival Hall
President begins his term with a flurry of far-reaching directives
String Quartet No 2 is a paean to Beethoven, but works best when Adams shines through
John Adams conducted his opera-oratorio with a composer’s authority
The American composer and conductor pushes artistic boundaries with a social message
Soprano Sarah Tynan took to the trapeze as a Britten song cycle combined with circus acrobatics
A concert featuring the Aurora Orchestra that explored musical minimalism and the divine
The choreographer’s 1983 piece resembles a game of multidimensional chess
John Adams conducted this performance of his latest major work, ‘Scheherazade.2’
A new work about climate change follows a tradition of librettos inspired by contemporary topics
The orchestra met the challenge of a line-up featuring orderly dissonance, lush delicacy and fine fine frenzy
The French visitors’ choreography had flair but was overwhelmed by ambitious musical choices
John Adams introduced this premiere of his rapturous new Second Quartet
The opera director’s new work narrates the final days in the life of Christ from a female perspective
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