The last time around, the title role was played by company founder John Bell. This time, the fearsome Coriolanus will be ...

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The Greek queen of Egypt Cleopatra is associated with a very public love affair with Roman leader Julius Caesar apart from ...

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 ...

but with the Romans he would switch to the mask of tragedy. Love Children Statue of the twin children of Antony and Cleopatra, born in late 40 B.C. Photograph by KENNETH GARRETT/CORBIS/CORDON ...

Running time: 2 hr., 15 min. If Antony and Cleopatra were on Facebook, their relationship status would read: It's Complicated. Theirs is an imperfect coupling fraught by marriages with other ...

We learn much of what we know about Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s eponymous play through something of a non-entity. Enobarbus tells us that “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her ...

Antony and Cleopatra marks a striking departure from Adams’s earlier operas. For the first time, he crafted the libretto himself, distilling Shakespeare’s expansive late tragedy while incorporating ...

Video by BILL MORRISON Supported by By Joshua Barone On the page, John Adams’s opera “Antony and Cleopatra” is a pretty straightforward adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. But on the ...

Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy exploring the unbridled love affair between Roman general Mark Antony and Queen Cleopatra of Egypt, set against the backdrop of political and ...

Jeff Lunden reports. JEFF LUNDEN, BYLINE: John Adams says he's always loved Shakespeare - in particular, the tragedy "Antony And Cleopatra." JOHN ADAMS: I think what I loved about it is the fact ...