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The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of live Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with Adams' Antony and Cleopatra ...

The most recent opera by John Adams receives its Met premiere. Julia Bullock stars as Cleopatra, one of theater’s most complex and captivating characters, opposite bass-baritone Gerald Finley as the ...

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

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 ...

By Zachary Woolfe “Antony and Cleopatra” played a crucial role ... since its premiere in San Francisco in 2022 and a later production in Barcelona. By now, some 20 minutes have been trimmed ...

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 ...

A Roman general and an Egyptian queen, Mark Antony and Cleopatra flaunted their scandalous ... Antony’s grand tour then took him to Tarsus, in modern-day southern Turkey. From here he dispatched ...

His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony ... (As Cleopatra, singing) Good my lord. LUNDEN: In fact, given both the fighting and the passion between the two lovers, the production hired not just ...

JEFF LUNDEN, BYLINE: John Adams says he's always loved Shakespeare - in particular, the tragedy "Antony And Cleopatra ... between the two lovers, the production hired not just a fight director ...