Antony and Cleopatra (Libretto)
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Antony and Cleopatra (Libretto)
The libretto for Antony and Cleopatra, prepared by Franco Zeffirelli for the opera by Samuel Barber, using language exclusively from the play by William Shakespeare.
- Paperback: 45 pages
- Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.; revised edition (June 1, 1991)
- Dimensions: 6.75” x 10.5”
History
JOHN ADAMS
Antony and Cleopatra
The most recent opera by preeminent American composer John Adams—a glorious adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal drama—has its Met premiere. Following her debut in the company premiere of Adams’s El Niño in 2024, soprano Julia Bullock stars as the irresistible Cleopatra, one of theater’s most complex and captivating characters, opposite bass-baritone Gerald Finley as the conflicted Antony. Adams himself takes the podium to conduct his lyrical and richly orchestrated score, leading a new staging by groundbreaking director Elkhanah Pulitzer that transports the story of troubled romance and political strife from ancient Rome to the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s. Tenor Paul Appleby is Caesar, who goes to war with Antony, and mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong is Caesar’s sister and Antony’s forsaken wife Octavia.
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