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[ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA] G. Schirmer 's / collection of / opera librettos / ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA / opera in three acts / music by / Samuel Barber / the text of William Shakespeare / adapted by / Franco Zeffirelli

edition New YorkG. Schirmer1966
format 24,7x17,1; pp. VI+21
acts atti 3
performance New York, Metropolitan16 settembre 1966
libretto Franco Zeffirelli
composer Samuel Barber
characters
Cleopatra (soprano)
Octavia (lyric soprano)
Charmian (mezzosoprano)
attendants on Cleopatra
Iras (contralto)
Antony (high bass)
Caesar (tenor)
Agrippa (bass)
senators
Lepidus (tenore buffo)
Maecenas (baritone)
Enobarbus (bass) friend to Antony
Eros (tenor or high baritone) shield-bearer to Antony, young man's voice
Dolabella (baritone)
Thidias (tenor or high baritone) ambassador from Caesar
Canidius (baritone)
officers to Antony
Demetrius (low tenor)
Scarus (bass)
Decretas (bass)
Mardian (high tenor) a eunuch
A rustic (baritone or bass)
Messenger (tenor)
Soothsayer (bass)
Alexas (bass) attendant on Cleopatra
A soldier of Antony (tenor)
A captain of Antony (tenor)
A soldier of Antony (baritone or bass)
The guards in Antony's camp (basses)
Two watchmen
People of the Empire, attendants on Cleopatra, senators, guards, watchmen, soldiers
remarks

[R.] Iª ed. ass. Iª rappr. ass. A p. II avvertenza: l'opera fu commissionata per l'inaugurazione del nuovo Metropolitan. In quarta di copertina elenco di libretti dell'ed. Soggetto tratto dall'omonimo dramma di Shakespeare.