Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thirty-five years ago, John Adams’ first opera, which changed the way opera would be made and matter in America, had its first ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The inspirations behind the staging of “Antony and Cleopatra,” which imagines a world in which celebrities can be tantamount to gods. Julia Bullock as Cleopatra in John Adams’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

-"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 ...

San Francisco — 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 ...