John Adams' 'Antony And Cleopatra' Featured On NPR's 'Weekend Edition'

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Composer John Adams's new opera Antony and Cleopatra, which opens at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City tonight, was the subject of a feature on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. NPR's Jeff Lunden spoke with the composer, who is conducting his work at the Met; stars Julia Bullock and Gerald Finley; and director Elkhanah Pulitzer. Adams concludes: "Part of composing is creating an alchemy between the colors and the gestures of the orchestra and the beauty of the voice. And, of course, in this case, I've got Shakespeare's language, which is incomparably wonderful." You can hear the piece here:

Performances of Antony and Cleopatra at the Met begin tonight and continue through June 7. For details and tickets, visit metopera.org.

Julia Bullock can be heard performing Adams's work on the 2024 first recording of his 2017 opera, Girls of the Golden West, and the 2018 first recording of his Doctor Atomic, as well as her own Grammy-winning debut solo recording, 2022's Walking in the Dark, on which she performs a song from his oratorio El Niño.