A Flowering Tree

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A Flowering Tree is an opera in two acts composed by John Coolidge Adams with libretto by Adams and Peter Sellars, and commissioned by the New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna, the San Francisco Symphony, the Barbican Centre in London, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, and the Berliner Philharmoniker. It premiered on November 14, 2006 in the MuseumsQuartier Hall in Vienna with Eric Owens as the narrator, Russell Thomas a... more
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Peter Sellars

Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his contemporary stagings of classical operas and plays. Sellars is...

John Coolidge Adams

John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism. His best-known works include On the...
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John Coolidge Adams

John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism. His best-known works include On the Transmigration of Souls (2002), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks (for which he won the Pulitzer...
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