Thirty-five years ago, John Adams’ first opera, which changed the way opera would be made and matter in America, had its first public workshop performance in a small theater, the Herbst, next door to ...

Any production of a new opera is a big deal. The world premiere of an opera by American composer John Adams is an international event. A co-commission and co-production with the Metropolitan Opera and ...

Two women next to me at a recent performance of John Adams’ newest opera, “Antony and Cleopatra,” chatted about how much they hated it. Still, one said her husband loved it. No, that husband wasn’t me ...

Composer Daniele da Castrovillari’s La Cleopatra premiered in Venice’s Teatro San Salvatore (also called Teatro San Luca) in 1662. A week earlier the Council of Ten, Venice’s top governing body, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. San Francisco Opera today announced a cast change for the world premiere of John ...

If John Adams had been content to offer a faithful operatic rendering of Shakespeare’s epic drama of Antony and Cleopatra, Adams would have created by far his finest opera in a career marred by ...

On Thursday, January 15, 2009, New York City Opera will present its Winter Gala accompanying a concert performance of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra. Gala guests will join us for pre-performance ...

John Adams has written operas that spring from world events - "Nixon In China," "The Death Of Klinghoffer," "Doctor Atomic." But the great composer's newest work, premiering at the Metropolitan Opera, ...

-"Cleopatra" (World Premiere, music by Justine Chen, poem by Anna Akhmatova [1940], English translation by Cori Ellison) -"Blinded by Love" (words and music by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, from the ...