MARC'ANTONIO -- list of characters in Zeffirelli's libretto, tratto da Shakespeare -- SPOLETO

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Cleopatra	soprano	role created by Leontyne Price
Marc'Antonio	baritone	Justino Diaz
Ottavio Cesare	tenor	Jess Thomas
Enobarbo	bass	Ezio Flagello
Charmian, servant to Cleopatra	mezzo-soprano	Rosalind Elias
Iras	mezzo-soprano	Belén Amparan
Mardian	tenor	Andrea Velis
Messenger	tenor	Paul Franke
Alexas	bass	Raymond Michalski
Soothsayer		Lorenzo Alvary
Rustic		Clifford Harvuot
Ottavia		Mary Ellen Pracht
Maecenas		Russell Christopher
Agrippa		John Macurdy
Lepido	tenor	Robert Nagy
Thidias		Robert Goodloe
Soldier of Cesare		Gabor Carelli
Eros		Bruce Scott
Dolabella		Gene Boucher
Canidius	baritone	Lloyd Strang
Demetrio		Norman Giffin
Scarus		Ron Bottcher
Decretas		Louis Sgarro
Captain of the Guard		Dan Marek
Guard 1		Robert Schmorr
Guard 2		Edward Ghazal
Guard 3		Norman Scott
Soldier of Marc'Antonio		John Trehy
Watchman 1		Paul De Paola
Watchman 2		Luis Forero
Sentinel		Peter Sliker

The Spoleto Festival production, directed by Gian-Carlo Menotti, and starring Esther Hinds as Cleopatra and Jeffrey Wells as Mark Antony, is available on CD (New World Records, 1992)

References

Freeman, John W. (1997). The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas. New York: W. W. Norton Co. ISBN 0-393-04051-8

Heyman, Barbara B. (1992a). "Antony and Cleopatra". The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 4 vols., edited by Stanley Sadie; managing editor, Christina Bashford. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 0-935859-92-6

Heyman, Barbara B. (1992b). "Barber, Samuel". The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 4 vols., edited by Stanley Sadie; managing editor, Christina Bashford. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 0-935859-92-6

Heyman, Barbara B. (1995). Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509058-6

Kolodin, Irving (1966). "Music to my Ears: Barber’s Antony, after Zeffirelli". Saturday Review (October 1).

Schonberg, Harold C. (September 17, 1966). "Onstage, It Was 'Antony and Cleopatra'; New Opera by Barber a Bit Lost in Shuffle". New York Times.

[hide] v t e William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1623) Characters Mark Antony Octavian Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Cleopatra VII Sextus Pompey Performances Antony and Cleopatra (1908 silent) Cleopatra (1917 silent) Antony and Cleopatra (opera) (1966) Antony and Cleopatra (1972) Antony & Cleopatra (1974) Antony & Cleopatra (1981) Antony and Cleopatra (1983) Related plays The False One (1647 play) All for Love (1677 play) Related Cultural depictions of Cleopatra VII Salad days

 

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