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

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

There’s an old expression, “A lawyer who defends himself has a fool for a client.” While John Adams didn’t decide to take on ...

Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock star in John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / ...

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 ...

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 ...

Antony’s Romans use English, Cleopatra’s Egyptians use British Sign Language (BSL), and the entire play is subtitled on a huge screen that centres the staging.

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 ...

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 ...

Daisy Dunn - Author, The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient World In the first century B.C.E., Fulvia, Octavia and Cleopatra competed for Mark Antony's heart. Illustration by ...

Chester Englander is a big name in a small world: he is playing the cimbalom, a jumbo hammered dulcimer that resembles an ...

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 ...