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.

New York. I saw the world premiere of John Adams’s “Antony and Cleopatra” at the San Francisco Opera in September 2022; at its Metropolitan Opera premiere on Monday, it felt like a ...

The Met’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ Reframes Ancient Tragedy Through the Lens of Propaganda John Adams’s opera sizzles and then loses steam in Elkhanah Pulitzer’s 1930s-set production.

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.

Amina Edris as Cleopatra in John Adams’ “Antony and Cleopatra,” given its world premiere by San Francisco Opera Sept. 10. (Cory Weaver / San Francisco Opera) By Mark Swed ...

Nearly sixty years later—likely through sheer serendipity—Giulio Cesare is once again competing with Antony and Cleopatra, the latter this time a new work by Adams that premieres at the Met ...

John Adams' opera 'Antony and Cleopatra' has its world premiere by San Francisco Opera.

The Cumberland Theatre will continue their 37th Season with the classic Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare. The show will run March 27 through April 13 for ten performances.

On the page, John Adams’s opera “Antony and Cleopatra” is a pretty straightforward adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. But on the stage, it is something else entirely.