American Composer John Adams’ opera-oratorio that focuses on the final few weeks of the life of Jesus, including his passion, from the point of view of “the other Mary”, Mary of Bethany (sometimes mis-identified as Mary Magdalene, her sister Martha, and her brother, Lazarus. The libretto by Peter Sellars draws its texts from the Old Testament of the Bible and from Rosario Castellanos, Ruben Dario, Dorothy Day, Louise Edrich, Hildegard von Bingen, June Jordan, and Primo Levi.
