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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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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.