John Adams Gives Antony and Cleopatra the Operatic Treatment
Shakespeare Unlimited
John Adams Gives Antony and Cleopatra the Operatic Treatment
Adams talks with host Barbara Bogaev about how he turned a five-act play into a two-act opera—which scenes got the hook, new lines written in the style of the Bard, and what Shakespeare may have thought of the play’s characters.
Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn on Their Hamlet Opera
Shakespeare Unlimited
Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn on Their Hamlet Opera
Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 191 A new opera version of Hamlet is onstage at New York’s Metropolitan Opera through June 9. Composer Brett Dean and librettist Matthew Jocelyn talk with host Barbara Bogaev about adapting the texts of the earliest editions…
Shakespeare and Opera, with Colleen Fay
Shakespeare Unlimited
Shakespeare and Opera, with Colleen Fay
We ask Colleen Fay which Shakespeare operas work and which ones don’t.