Antony and Cleopatra
Music by John Adams (composer) · libretto by John Adams · premiered 2022 · at War Memorial Opera House
Antony and Cleopatra is an opera by American composer John Adams, premiered at the San Francisco Opera in September 2022. An adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra, the libretto was written by John Adams with consultation by Elkhanah Pulitzer and Lucia Scheckner with text from Shakespeare's play, as well as supplementary passages from Plutarch, Virgil, and other classical texts. It is Adams' sixth opera and his first without collaboration with Peter Sellars. Performances are planned in Barcelona and the New York Metropolitan Opera.
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About the Composer
John Adams (composer) is the composer of record for this opera.
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Other Operas by John Adams (composer)
- A Flowering Tree
- I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (1995)
- El Niño (2000)
- Doctor Atomic (2005)
- Girls of the Golden West (2017)