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"I once said that I thought that the two most painful things two human beings can do together are a double-ax murder or an artistic collaboration." @SophieHaigney interviews composer John Adams for our Art of the Libretto series.

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The Paris Review
The Art of the Libretto: John Adams - The Paris Review
I thought that the millennium as a celebration should have something to do with these emotions. If you want to put it in another way, I wanted to write my own Messiah.
But what Peter did, which gave the piece its unique flavor, was to suggest a selection of texts, many of which came from the Hispanic poetic tradition.
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