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

Fine-tuned over several years, there are moments of ecstatic lyricism in this piece — and a hair-raising scream ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

JOHN ADAMS: I think what I loved about it is the fact that Antony and Cleopatra are not Romeo and Juliet. They're not young lovers. They're people who've been around the block. Each one has a ...

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LUNDEN: Still, the composer says his favorite moment in the opera is much quieter. It comes when Antony is dying from his own self-inflicted wound, and he is together with Cleopatra for one final ...

Live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City: John Adams conducts his latest opera, based on Shakespeare's immortal drama and starring Julia Bullock and Gerald Finley ...