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Beethoven’s groundbreaking C-minor Piano Trio kicks off a rousing evening alongside early pieces by two later composers: Johannes Brahms, whose G-minor Piano Quartet brims with youthful and expressive energy, and John Corigliano, who wrote a captivating work inspired by a rich and imaginative poem by Dylan Thomas.

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Beethoven, Corigliano, and Brahms

Lincoln Center

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.

Paul Appleby

Tenor

Events

Oct 25, 2024

Beethoven, Corigliano, and Brahms · Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

May 12 - Jun 7, 2025

Antony and Cleopatra · The Metropolitan Opera

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