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Stage director

Elkhanah Pulitzer

Set designer

Mimi Lien

Costume designer

Constance Hoffman

Lighting designer

David Finn

Video designer

Bill Morrison

Sound designer

Mark Grey

Choreographer

Annie-B Parson

Dramaturge

Lucia Scheckner

Conductor

John Coolidge Adams

Singer

Julia Bullock

Cleopatra

Elizabeth DeShong

Octavia

Taylor Raven

Charmian

Paul Appleby

Caesar

Brenton Ryan

Eros

Gerald Finley

Antony

Alfred Walker

Enobarbus

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Antony and Cleopatra

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Antony and Cleopatra Adams

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Rahul Solomon

Approved

The most recent opera by preeminent American composer John Adams—a glorious adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal drama—has its Met premiere. Following her debut in the company premiere of Adams’s El Niño in 2024, soprano Julia Bullock stars as the irresistible Cleopatra, one of theater’s most complex and captivating characters, opposite bass-baritone Gerald Finley as the conflicted Antony. Adams himself takes the podium to conduct his lyrical and richly orchestrated score, leading a new staging by groundbreaking director Elkhanah Pulitzer that transports the story of troubled romance and political strife from ancient Rome to the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s. Tenor Paul Appleby is Caesar, who goes to war with Antony, and mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong is Caesar’s sister and Antony’s forsaken wife Octavia.

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Antony and Cleopatra by Adams, From (2025/2025), Directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer,, Conductor John Coolidge Adams, Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, United States

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