Get a first look at the Metropolitan Opera's Antony and Cleopatra, which comes to NYC following runs at San Francisco Opera ...

The Virginia Opera and the Richmond Symphony presented Damien Geter’s new opera about the landmark Supreme Court case ...

There’s an old expression, “A lawyer who defends himself has a fool for a client.” While John Adams didn’t decide to take on ...

John Adams’s Shakespeare adaptation has been trimmed since its premiere, but still struggles with setting a flood of dense Elizabethan verse.

Jeff Lunden reports. JEFF LUNDEN, BYLINE: John Adams says he's always loved Shakespeare - in particular, the tragedy "Antony ...

John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens at the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, next week.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Metropolitan Opera opened its Lincoln Center theatre in September 1966 with the premiere of Samuel ...

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Julia Bullock as Cleopatra in John Adams’s “Antony and Cleopatra” at the Metropolitan Opera.Credit...Video by BILL MORRISON Supported by By Joshua Barone On the page, John Adams’s opera ...

Giulio Cesare is once again competing with Antony and Cleopatra, the latter this time a new work by John Adams that premiered ...