The Buzz

“Edris’ performance—tonally luxuriant, dramatically changeable, inspiring equal degrees of awe and pathos—rose to the challenge in every way.”
— San Francisco Chronicle

“Cleopatra’s long, magnificent final death scene features some of the most radiantly beautiful music in the composer’s [John Adams’] catalog.”
— San Francisco Chronicle

“The cast is top-notch. Gerald Finley… as Antony offers a fine blend of fading nobility and lovesick weakness.”
— Financial Times

“Eun Sun Kim’s conducting and constant cueing of the singers is splendid, especially in the big orchestral interludes where Adams’s music takes flight.”
— The Telegraph

“Tenor Paul Appleby is a stunning Octavian, the future Caesar Augustus, making of him an emotional, yet calculating, political animal.”
— San Francisco Classical Voice

“Baritone Gerald Finley and soprano Amina Edris took the title roles in Elkhanah Pulitzer’s visually stunning, well-paced production.”
— Opera News