Antony and Cleopatra: Adams Gives Free Rein to His Sense of Musical Colour

Antony and Cleopatra: Adams gives free rein to his sense of musical colour

via The MetThey are mysteries as enigmatic as the characters at the centre of John Adam’s opera, Antony and Cleopatra, premiered at New York’s Metropolitan Opera on 12 September, already performed in San Francisco and Barcelona. Why, as usual, was the Met late to the party?And what took Adams on his epic voyage to Ancient Egypt and Rome? After all, the leading American composer of contemporary opera has crafted his reputation on a genre largely …

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