Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock star in John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / ...

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

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

Previously seen in San Francisco and Barcelona, John Adams’ operatic adaptation of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra has finally arrived (revised) at the Metropolitan Opera. Composed on his own ...

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 ...

J ohn Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra might be one of the most precisely engineered, solidly constructed, and elegantly executed operas of the past 25 years. For a tragic love stor ...

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John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens ...

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