John Adams' latest opera Antony and Cleopatra opens at the Metropolitan Opera May 12, in a production directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer. Get a first look at the production below.
Soprano Julia Bullock, who made her Met debut last year in Adams' El Ni帽o, stars as Cleopatra alongside baritone Gerald Finley as Marc Antony in the operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's play. They are joined by tenor Paul Appleby as Caesar, mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong as Octavia, mezzo-soprano Taylor Raven as Charmian, tenor Brenton Ryan as Eros, baritone Jarrett Ott as Agrippa, and bass-baritone Alfred Walker as Enobarbus. John Adams will take the podium to conduct his own score.
Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock in Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera
Julia Bullock and Gerald Finley in Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera
Julia Bullock and Gerald Finley in Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera
Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock in Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera
Julia Bullock and Gerald Finley in Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera
Gerald Finley in Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera
Gerald Finley in Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera
Julia Bullock in Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera
Julia Bullock in Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera
Paul Appleby in Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera
Elizabeth DeShong and Gerald Finley in Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera
Julia Bullock and Jarrett Ott in Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera
Brenton Ryan and Julia Bullock in Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera
Elizabeth DeShong in Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera
A scene from Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera
A scene from Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera
A scene from Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera
Elkhanah Pulitzer makes her Met debut leading a creative team that includes set designer Mimi Lien, costume designer Constance Hoffman, lighting designer David Finn, projection designer Bill Morrison, sound designer Mark Grey, choreographer Annie-B Parson, fight director Chris Dumont, and dramaturg Lucia Scheckner.
础诲补尘蝉鈥� Antony and Cleopatra is the second opera based on the play to be performed at the Met. Samuel Barber鈥檚 Antony and Cleopatra was the inaugural production of the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in 1966. Both Barber鈥檚 and 础诲补尘蝉鈥� operas derive their librettos from Shakespeare's text, with Adams supplementing Shakespeare with passages from Plutarch, Virgil, and others.
Performances of Antony and Cleopatra run May 12-June 7. Visit .
