From 2011 to 2013, Adams wrote his two-act Passion oratorio, The Gospel According to the Other Mary, a decade after his Nativity oratorio, El Niño. The work focuses on the final few weeks of the life of Jesus from the point of view of "the other Mary", Mary of Bethany (sometimes misidentified as Mary Magdalene), her sister Martha, and her brother, Lazarus.Woolfe, Zachary (June 1, 2012). "Composer's New Passion Unspooled". The New York Times. Sellars's libretto draws from the Bible and from Rosario Castellanos, Rubén Darío, Dorothy Day, Louise Erdrich, Hildegard von Bingen, June Jordan, and Primo Levi.
From 2011 to 2013, Adams wrote his two-act Passion oratorio, The Gospel According to the Other Mary, a decade after his Nativity oratorio, El Niño. The work focuses on the final few weeks of the life of Jesus from the point of view of "the other Mary", Mary of Bethany (sometimes misidentified as Mary Magdalen:e), her s,ister Martha, and her brother, Lazarus.Woolfe, Zachary (June 1, 2012). "Composer's New Passion Unspooled". The New York Times. Sellars's libretto draws from the Bible and from Rosario Castellanos, Rubén Darío, Dorothy Day, Louise Erdrich, Hildegard von Bingen, June ,Jordan, and Primo Levi.