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John Adams’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ Sags at the Metropolitan Opera

John Adams’s Shakespeare adaptation has been trimmed since its premiere, but still struggles with setting a flood of dense Elizabethan verse.

By Zachary Woolfe

Adams, John (1947- ) Berkeley, Busby Classical Music Colbert, Claudette Costumes Knowles, Beyonce Lien, Mimi Metropolitan Opera Opera Pulitzer, Elkhanah Taylor, Elizabeth (1932-2011)

The Inspirations Behind the Met Opera’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’

The inspirations behind the staging of “Antony and Cleopatra,” which imagines a world in which celebrities can be tantamount to gods.

By Joshua Barone

Bliss, Ben Brant, George Classical Music D'Angelo, Emily (Singer) Drones (Pilotless Planes) Grounded (Opera) Lien, Mimi Mayer, Michael Nezet-Seguin, Yannick Opera Tesori, Jeanine

Review: A Devastated Drone Pilot Opens the Met Opera’s Season

Jeanine Tesori and George Brant’s bloodless “Grounded,” about a fighter pilot turned dissociating drone operator, stars the mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo.

By Zachary Woolfe

Costanzo, Anthony Roth Du Bois, W E B Geffen Contemporary Industry, The (Opera Company) Lewis, George E Lien, Mimi Monteverdi, Claudio Opera Sharon, Yuval (1979- ) The Comet/Poppea (Opera)

A New Opera Mashes Up Monteverdi and W.E.B. Du Bois

“The Comet/Poppea” radically pares down a classic and blends it with a premiere by George E. Lewis for an original show that will travel widely.

By Seth Colter Walls