We learn much of what we know about Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s eponymous ... just the dramatic center of the opera: the love story between these two vain and deluded people.

By Zachary Woolfe “Antony and Cleopatra” played a crucial role in ... The main problem is basic intelligibility. For this story of the obsessive love between two seen-it-all cynics and the ...

Those omissions seriously unbalanced the carefully wrought libretto of Nicola Haym, which intertwines the love story of Caesar and Cleopatra with the trials and tribulations of Pompey’s widow ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of live Saturday matinee broadcasts continues at 1 p.m. with the network broadcast premiere of "Antony and Cleopatra" by John Adams ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The inspirations behind the staging of “Antony and Cleopatra,” which imagines a world in which celebrities can be tantamount to gods. Julia Bullock as Cleopatra in John ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Metropolitan Opera opened its Lincoln Center theatre in September 1966 with the premiere of Samuel ...

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Virginia Opera teamed up with the Richmond Symphony to commission a work with a state-centric story. Damien Geter’s “Loving v. Virginia,” which had its ...

Here is just a sampling of some of the classic arts events happening this week. John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra has its Metropolitan Opera premiere May 12, in a production directed by Elkhanah ...

Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law ...

The Globe Theatre continues to challenge audiences this season with a bilingual production of Anthony and Cleopatra, intended to make theatre more accessible to a wider audience. Partly delivered ...