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

The Virginia Opera and the Richmond Symphony presented Damien Geter’s new opera about the landmark Supreme Court case ...

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

A Roman general and an Egyptian queen, Mark Antony and Cleopatra flaunted their scandalous love affair while challenging the power of Rome. This 1883 painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema shows Mark ...

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 ...

John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens ...

Giulio Cesare is once again competing with Antony and Cleopatra, the latter this time a new work by John Adams that premiered ...

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 ...

Fine-tuned over several years, there are moments of ecstatic lyricism in this piece — and a hair-raising scream ...

From Alexandria to Seville, the classic arts scene in New York is never quiet. Here is just a sampling of some of the classic ...

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, with a ...