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 ...

The Italian filmmaker hopes his staging of John Adams’s “The Death of Klinghoffer” will help audiences look past the controversies surrounding the work. By Elisabetta Povoledo Recent performances by ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — The children crumple and fall to the stage, victims of King Herod’s assassins. Then the Virgin Mary, in a voice brimming with anguish and outrage, memorializes the student ...

The Adams-Sellars narrative, with its allusion to one of Giacomo Puccini’s bona fide operas—1910’s “The Girl of the Golden West”—concerns the California Gold Rush, specifically the year 1851 and the ...

“John Adams (b. 1947) is among the most celebrated composers active today.” I have quoted program notes from the Metropolitan Opera. And it is true. Who else is as celebrated as Adams? As visible (or ...

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 Opera, ...