Cleopatra was not just a famed Greek queen of Ancient Egypt, but she also even created her own secret drinking club.

The Utah Shakespeare Festival is back for its 64th season with fresh stories to tell, including a Tony Award-winning musical ...

The Met’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ Reframes Ancient Tragedy Through the Lens of Propaganda John Adams’s opera sizzles and then loses steam in Elkhanah Pulitzer’s 1930s-set production.

New York. I saw the world premiere of John Adams’s “Antony and Cleopatra” at the San Francisco Opera in September 2022; at its Metropolitan Opera premiere on Monday, it felt like a ...

Antony’s Romans use English, Cleopatra’s Egyptians use British Sign Language (BSL), and the entire play is subtitled on a huge screen that centres the staging.

Amina Edris as Cleopatra in John Adams’ “Antony and Cleopatra,” given its world premiere by San Francisco Opera Sept. 10. (Cory Weaver / San Francisco Opera) By Mark Swed ...

On the page, John Adams’s opera “Antony and Cleopatra” is a pretty straightforward adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. But on the stage, it is something else entirely.

John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens at the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, next week.

Nearly sixty years later—likely through sheer serendipity—Giulio Cesare is once again competing with Antony and Cleopatra, the latter this time a new work by Adams that premieres at the Met ...

Soprano Amina Edris as Cleopatra in San Francisco Opera's production of Antony and Cleopatra. Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera "I'm not gonna lie," says Edris, who had never sung an Adams opera before.