Tenor Paul Appleby makes for a pretty intimidating leader, if you ask us.😬 Appleby has been commanding the stage as Caesar in John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra. Enjoy this excerpt from Act II, where he proclaims Rome’s dominance over the world, alongside the Met Opera Chorus. John Adams conducts. Antony and Cleopatra is on stage through June 7. 🎟️Book your tickets for this Shakespearean drama now: bit.ly/3YEbe23 Videography by Neville Braithwaite / Met Opera | The Metropolitan Opera

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Can’t wait to perform Winterreise tomorrow with my long-time collaborator, Ken Noda. Here’s a moment from our performance of Schumann’s Dichterliebe, Op. 48 — Hör’ ich das Liedchen klingen — with the The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center . Join us tomorrow for Schubert’s masterpiece with the Brooklyn Art Song Society. Our Winterreise is at 5 p.m. at Roulette as the 2nd part of part of an epic day of Schubert song cycles, beginning with Die schöne Müllerin and concluding with Schwanengesang