John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens at the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, next week.

John Adams thought July 2 would be marked as a national holiday for generations to come: “[Independence Day] will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am a ...

The opera, by the American composer John Adams, depicts the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists and their murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound ...

After the pianist, Vikingur Olafsson, asked for a concerto over beers, the composer, John Adams, wrote “After the Fall,” which will now travel the world.

That piece is not unlike the work of the Bay Area’s John Adams, ... “No Such Spring” by Samuel Adams, the composer’s 39-year-old son.

Opening night of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2014 production of The Death of Klinghoffer was met by a phalanx of protesters ready for a fight. The opera, by the American composer John Adams ...