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

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

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 ...

Get a first look at the Metropolitan Opera's Antony and Cleopatra, which comes to NYC following runs at San Francisco Opera ...

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

Jeff Lunden reports. JEFF LUNDEN, BYLINE: John Adams says he's always loved Shakespeare - in particular, the tragedy "Antony ...

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.

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

Julia Bullock as Cleopatra in John Adams’s “Antony and Cleopatra” at the Metropolitan Opera.Credit...Video by BILL MORRISON Supported by By Joshua Barone On the page, John Adams’s opera ...