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John Adams. Photo: Vern Evans John Adams has just turned 70. Everyone is celebrating. Everyone wants him to celebrate with them. So whe...

How do you set an atomic bomb to music? To attempt it, you have to think big. Over the centuries, the greatest composers have arguably sto...

News from John Adams's website tells us that this much-loved American composer has been hard at work on his biggest creation since...

John Adams's The Gospel According to the Other Mary opened in its first-ever full staging at ENO last night. I was mesmerised and mind-...

The  National Coalition Against Censorship ,  the  National Opera Association ,  Article 19 ,  The Dramatists Legal Defense Fund ,  Free Exp...

How to turn a good contemporary opera into an eternal iconic masterpiece 101: suppress it.  Comment piece now up on the Amati.com webzine. ...

My interview with the fabulous John Adams is in today's Independent. Read it here. I wouldn't want to say this or that person is m...

Yesterday was the opening night of The Death of Klinghoffer at English National Opera. Rings: it's strong stuff, first of all. Tom ...

...so John Adams came to London a day early and English National Opera held a Friends event at which artistic director John Berry interview...

Later this month ENO's new production of The Death of Klinghoffer , John Adams's opera about a Palestinian hijacking at sea that too...