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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. John Adams has ...

Cleopatra may have died more than 2,000 years ... in the film adaptation of Schiff's love-on-the-Nile epic. But the true story, as told by her new biographer, is more complex and less of a male ...

“We haven’t done ‘Cleopatra’ since 2013, and our audiences loved it then,” Seaton said. “It’s a love story with a tragic ... later, Mark Antony, influencing Roman power struggles ...

The debris chucked out by the people of the now-vanished Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus — the ‘City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish ... of the fleets of Cleopatra and Mark Antony by the future ...