Composer Adams delivers Nativity oratorio through the eyes of a modern woman

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams wrote his oratorio, “El Niño,” in 2000, as a celebration for the new millennium. Adams had always wanted to write his own “Messiah.” This, though, retells the Nativity story from a female’s perspective. It is multilayered and multicultural. More than two decades later, “El Niño” remains strikingly relevant to our time.  Adams will make his May Festival conducting debut to open the festival with his own work, “El Niño,” on May 20 in…