Sunday, April 28, 2013

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

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Cleopatrasopranorole created by Leontyne Price
Marc'AntoniobaritoneJustino Diaz
Ottavio CesaretenorJess Thomas
EnobarbobassEzio Flagello
Charmian, servant to Cleopatramezzo-sopranoRosalind Elias
Irasmezzo-sopranoBelén Amparan
MardiantenorAndrea Velis
MessengertenorPaul Franke
AlexasbassRaymond Michalski
SoothsayerLorenzo Alvary
RusticClifford Harvuot
OttaviaMary Ellen Pracht
MaecenasRussell Christopher
AgrippaJohn Macurdy
LepidotenorRobert Nagy
ThidiasRobert Goodloe
Soldier of CesareGabor Carelli
ErosBruce Scott
DolabellaGene Boucher
CanidiusbaritoneLloyd Strang
DemetrioNorman Giffin
ScarusRon Bottcher
DecretasLouis Sgarro
Captain of the GuardDan Marek
Guard 1Robert Schmorr
Guard 2Edward Ghazal
Guard 3Norman Scott
Soldier of Marc'AntonioJohn Trehy
Watchman 1Paul De Paola
Watchman 2Luis Forero
SentinelPeter 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.

 

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