But on the stage, it is something else entirely. The production of “Antony and Cleopatra” that opens at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday is by Elkhanah Pulitzer, who turns Shakespeare’s play ...

Pulitzer’s draws much of its imagery from 1930s newsreels and fascist propaganda flicks. This is not a production about ...

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

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

John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra has its Metropolitan Opera premiere May 12, in a production directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer and conducted by the composer. Following her Met debut last year in ...

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

But while she's often thought to be a great beauty who seduced Julius Caesar and Mark Antony ... close relationship with Rome, Cleopatra traveled to Tarsus in modern-day Turkey to meet him ...

“Antony and Cleopatra ... Adams’ muse for this Cleopatra but, about to give birth, she has had to bow out of the San Francisco performances. She will join the production when it travels ...

There’s an epic power struggle taking place at San Francisco Opera this month — one that dates all the way back to ancient Egypt. “Antony and Cleopatra,” the new opera by Bay Area composer ...