Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s doomed power couple 'Antony and Cleopatra,' who are far better at love than war, in Simon Godwin's production at the National.

Julia Bullock as Cleopatra. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera. We learn much of what we know about Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s eponymous play through something of a non-entity.

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Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra has frequently been called a "problem play." The characters do not fit into familiar Shakespearean molds, and the play itself refuses to be classified as a ...

Antony’s Romans use English, Cleopatra’s Egyptians use British Sign Language (BSL), and the entire play is subtitled on a huge screen that centres the staging.

Thirty-five years ago, John Adams’ first opera, which changed the way opera would be made and matter in America, had its first public workshop performance in a small theater, the Herbst, next ...

The production of “Antony and Cleopatra” that opens at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday is by Elkhanah Pulitzer, who turns Shakespeare’s play of torn allegiances, thwarted love and ascendant ...

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.

Amina Edris as Cleopatra in John Adams’ “Antony and Cleopatra,” given its world premiere by San Francisco Opera Sept. 10. (Cory Weaver / San Francisco Opera) By Mark Swed Classical Music Critic ...

Jones’ play was drawn from Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” and other sources, but it’s informed by Jones’ own experience as a strong Black woman, a mother and a poet.