John Adams’s Shakespeare adaptation has been trimmed since its premiere, but still struggles with setting a flood of dense Elizabethan verse.

Opera on 3 — Live from the Met, Wagner's The Flying Dutchman Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, a performance of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. BBC Radio 3 ...

Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock star in John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / ...

Mr. Schenk received a huge ovation when he took a curtain call after an April ... des Barnum und Bailey,’ the Metropolitan Opera’s staging of Wagner’s epic has cast a vote for the notion ...

Schenk received a huge ovation when he took a curtain call after an April ... Der Ringling des Barnum und Bailey,' the Metropolitan Opera's staging of Wagner's epic has cast a vote for the notion ...