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John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra arrives at the Met

Julia Bullock (Cleopatra), Gerald Finley (Antony) and Paul Appleby (Caesar) © Karen Almond | Met Opera
John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra puts the composer's propulsive music at the service of both moments of riveting human drama and less effective scenes of battle and politics. 
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Lorca retold in Met's remarkable restaging of Golijov’s Ainadamar

Angel Blue (Margarita Xirgu) © Marty Sohl | Met Opera

Deborah Colker directs an ambitious show, which works incredibly well with storytelling as emotive as it is narrative, confronting death and loss in sharp, weary pains. 

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Bach cantatas, American spirituals, global calamity

Shall We Gather at the River? © Stephanie Berger
The Gospel according to Peter Sellars: an intermingling of Bach’s cantatas and American spirituals depicts an environmental message that the impending end won’t be personal, but global.
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The Greatest Story Ever Told gets a new look in the Met's El Niño

El Niño © Evan Zimmerman | Met Opera
John Adams’ Nativity oratorio is fully staged in a new production by Lileana Blain-Cruz, her first time directing at the Met. 
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Tibio estreno europeo de Antony y Cleopatra

Gerald Finley (Antony), Julia Bullock (Cleopatra) © Gran Teatre del Liceu

John Adams estrena y dirige en el Gran Teatre del Liceu la última de sus obras, trasladada de la Antigüedad al Hollywood de los años treinta.

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Kaufmann and Deutsch shine in Claus Guth's dramatized Schwanengesang

Jonas Kaufmann © Monika Rittershaus, courtesy of Park Avenue Armory
In New York's Park Avenue Armory, Claus Guth imagines Schubert's final song collection set in a military hospital, Jonas Kaufmann as one of its soldiers with a story to tell. 
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