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

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.

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 ...

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

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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 ...

His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens at the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, next week. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an independent, nonprofit news ...

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