"I find living in the 1790s kind of refreshing," says Kurt Graham, whose career took him from Salt Lake City to Boston.

Now playing at the Met is Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra. It premiered in San Francisco in 2022. We have had an American opera ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by John Adams’s Shakespeare adaptation has been trimmed since its premiere, but still struggles with setting a flood of dense Elizabethan verse.

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.

John Adams has written operas that spring from world events - "Nixon In China," "The Death Of Klinghoffer," "Doctor Atomic." But the great composer's newest work, premiering at the Metropolitan ...