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Arts writing by Thomas May

John Adams’s “Antony and Cleopatra” Arrives at the Met

Some thoughts on the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Antony and Cleopatra by John Adams, published by Opera Now:

With its arrival on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, Antony and Cleopatra reaches its most convincing form to date. John Adams’s newest opera has already had productions by co-commissioners San Francisco Opera (2022) and Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu (2023). As is customary with Adams, each outing has brought revisions — most conspicuously in trimming the score, a process he has continued for the Met version….

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Filed under: American opera, John Adams, Metropolitan Opera, Shakespeare

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