Antony & Cleopatra - Leontyne Price - Justino Díaz - Barber - MET Opening 1966 SN Restored 2024 - 4K

Antony and Cleopatra, Op. 40, is an opera in by Samuel Barber - adapted from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra - SN Archives - Radio Broadcast - 1966 - World Premiere - Early version - three acts - The libretto was prepared by Franco Zeffirelli.
The opera is based on the play Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare and made use of Shakespeare's language exclusively.
Watch also the full video performance of the last revised version made in 1975 - TV - Lyric Opera of Chicago - • Antony & Cleopatra - C...
The opera was first performed on September 16, 1966, commissioned for the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. After an unsuccessful premiere, the opera was extensively revised by Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti into an edition first performed in 1975.
Last revised version - 1975 - This version, first introduced in a conservatory staging in 1975, reached a major operatic stage only last October, when Lyric Opera of Chicago mounted it.
Barber, dead these 11 years, suffered deeply, it has long been reported, from the failure of the original “Antony,” produced lavishly by Franco Zeffirelli for the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera house in Lincoln Center in 1966.
Eight years later, the composer wrote a new version--with his longtime collaborator, composer Gian Carlo Menotti, as co-librettist--requiring a smaller cast, demanding of less spectacle and dramatically tighter, than the original.
Less than two hours in length, the revised “Antony” seems a masterpiece of compression, though still uncompelling as drama; it remains, in the words of one critic, “a brisk budget tour of the play’s events.” Barber’s functional, sometimes beautiful music falls short of his higher standard.
Conductor: Thomas Schippers
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
CAST
Antony: Justino Díaz
Cleopatra: Leontyne Price
Caesar: Jess Thomas
Enobarbus: Ezio Flagello
Charmian: Rosalind Elias
Iras: Belén Amparan
Mardian: Andrea Velis
Messenger: Paul Franke
Alexas: Raymond Michalski
Soothsayer: Lorenzo Alvary
Rustic: Clifford Harvuot
Octavia: Mary Ellen Pracht
Maecenas: Russell Christopher
Agrippa: John Macurdy
Lepidus: Robert Nagy
Thidias: Robert Goodloe
Soldier of Caesar: Gabor Carelli
Eros: Bruce Scott
Dolabella: Gene Boucher
Canidius: Lloyd Strang
Demetrius: Norman Giffin
Scarus: Ron Bottcher
Decretas: Louis Sgarro
Captain: Dan Marek
3 Guards: Robert Schmorr, Edward Ghazal, Norman Scott
Soldier of Antony: John Trehy
2 Watchmen: Paul De Paola, Luis Forero
Sentinel: Peter Sliker
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