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John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra arrives at the Met
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
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
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
John Adams’ Nativity oratorio is fully staged in a new production by Lileana Blain-Cruz, her first time directing at the Met.
Kaufmann and Deutsch shine in Claus Guth's dramatized Schwanengesang
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.
The Rest is Noise: Adams' El Niño
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.