Antony and Cleopatra review — Shakespeare meets Hollywood at the Met
Over the years, his collaborations with the director Peter Sellars have taken on pressing political issues, from the Cold War diplomacy of Nixon in China to Oppenheimer's bomb in Doctor Atomic. Antony and Cleopatra is Adams's first opera without Sellars, and shorn of Sellars' eccentrically brilliant way with text and stage, runs the risk of becoming a conventional grand opera.
A co-commission from Met, San Francisco, and Barcelona, it has been tightened up dramatically since its premiere in 2022. Yet much
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