Antony and Cleopatra: Media Round-Up

Amina Edris and Gerald Finley in the title roles of Antony and Cleopatra.

Act 2, before the Battle of Actium

Photo: Cory Weaver / San Francisco Opera

John Adams's new opera, Antony and Cleopatra, opened the other day, and the reviews are rolling in. I expect this list to grow. Paywalls in many of these places.

• Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle
• Zachary Woolfe, NY Times.
• Georgia Rowe, Opera News
• Lisa Hirsch, SFCV
• Alex Ross, The New Yorker
• Mark Swed, LA Times
• John Rockwell, Financial Times
• Nicholas Kenyon, Telegraph
• Heidi Waleson, WSJ
• Thomas May, Musical America
• Richard Ginell, CVNA
• Opera Tattler, Opera Tattler (again)
• Michael Anthonio, Parterre Box
• Patrick Vaz, The Reverberate Hills
• Michael Strickland, SF Civic Center
• Jari Kallio, Adventures in Music

Related: When the Star Cancels, Opera History is Made, by Lisa Hirsch; A Study of Power, by Angela Allen, Oregon Artswatch