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, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Girls of the Golden West, out April 26, 2024, is John Adams’ eighth music theater ...

After the pianist, Vikingur Olafsson, asked for a concerto over beers, the composer, John Adams, wrote “After the Fall,” which will now travel the world. By Joshua Barone The composer John Adams led ...

AMSTERDAM — “Oh, this is a new opera?” a friend said as we made our way to the Dutch National Opera here for the European premiere of John Adams’ “Girls of the Golden West” on Thursday night. “I ...

From May 12-June 7, the Metropolitan Opera will present John Adams's 2022 Shakespearean opera Antony and Cleopatra, following runs at San Francisco Opera and the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. The Met ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 protesters ...

Classical music isn’t the first place one expects to find political and social activism. But then, not many classical composers are John Adams, whose stature as one of the world’s most important and ...

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 ...