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Julia Bullock (Cleopatra), Gerald Finley (Antony) and Paul Appleby (Caesar) © Karen Almond | Met Opera

Julia Bullock and Gerald Finley generate real heat as Antony and Cleopatra arrives at the Met

By David Wolfson, 12 May 2025

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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New York City

12 May 2025

John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra arrives at the Met

By David Wolfson

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

New York City

The life of Lorca retold in the Met’s remarkable restaging of Golijov’s Ainadamar

By Kurt Gottschalk, 15 October 2024

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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New York City

15 Oct 2024

Lorca retold in Met's remarkable restaging of Golijov’s Ainadamar

By Kurt Gottschalk

Shall We Gather at the River? © Stephanie Berger

New York City

Bach cantatas, American spirituals and global calamity at Park Avenue Armory

By Kurt Gottschalk, 21 May 2024

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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New York City

21 May 2024

Bach cantatas, American spirituals, global calamity

By Kurt Gottschalk

New York City

The Greatest Story Ever Told gets a new look in the Met's El Niño

By Kurt Gottschalk, 23 April 2024

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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New York City

23 Apr 2024

The Greatest Story Ever Told gets a new look in the Met's El Niño

By Kurt Gottschalk

Jonas Kaufmann © Monika Rittershaus, courtesy of Park Avenue Armory

New York City

Kaufmann and Deutsch shine in Claus Guth's dramatized Schwanengesang

By Robert Levine, 27 September 2023

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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New York City

27 Sep 2023

Kaufmann and Deutsch shine in Claus Guth's dramatized Schwanengesang

By Robert Levine

London

John Adams' El Niño concludes The Rest is Noise

By Chris Garlick, 14 December 2013

Southbank Centre's The Rest is Noise festival came to an end with John Adams' oratorio El Niño, composed in 2000. The London Philharmonic Orchestra suited the piece well, and this was a performance to cherish.

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London

14 Dec 2013

The Rest is Noise: Adams' El Niño

By Chris Garlick

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

Barcelona

De la república de la imaginación al imperio del convencionalismo: Antony & Cleopatra de John Adams en el Liceu

By Maria Sánchez, 02 November 2023

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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Barcelona

02 Nov 2023

Tibio estreno europeo de Antony y Cleopatra

By Maria Sánchez