NewMusicBox has an article where John Adams comments on listening to his opera being sung for the first time:
When I first heard the singers, it was in a relatively small rehearsal hall, with a piano accompaniment. I thought I'd written too high for all the men!
But no, it turned out fine. At the end of the article, the composer suggests he might write a symphony from the opera's material.
I remember Adams talking before the premiere of El Dorado (or was it The Death of Klinghoffer?) where he remarked that the perspective on hearing a new work of his being performed is like standing inches away from a new painting.
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