Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, with supplementary passages (see notes).
Co-commission with San Francisco Opera, Metropolitan Opera and Liceu Opera Barcelona.
Creative/Crew
Conductor
Director
Set Designer(s)
Costume Designer(s)
Lighting Designer
Projection Designer
Sound Designer & Mixing Engineer
Dramaturg
Movement Director
Chorus Director
Assistant Conductor
Prompter
Musical Preparation
Diction
Assistant Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Assistant Stage Manager(s)
Fight Director
Intimacy Director
Costume Supervisor
Wig and Makeup
Cast
Cleopatra: the Incarnate Isis and Queen of the Worlds of Egypt
Antony: Roman general, Triumvir
Charmian: attendant on Cleopatra
Eros: follower of Antony
Enobarbus: Antony’s lieutenant
Caesar: Roman Triumvir
Agrippa: follower of Caesar
Lepidus: Roman Triumvir
Octavia: sister of Caesar, wife of Antony
Scarus: follower of Antony
Iras: attendant on Cleopatra
Maecenas: follower of Caesar
Show Dates
Time and Place
TIME AND PLACE: 34-30 BCE
Scenes
Media
Sponsors
Opening Weekend Grand Sponsor Diane B. Wilsey.
Production Sponsor: Carol Franc Buck Foundation.
Production Sponsor: Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation
Production Sponsor: Bertie Bialek Elliott
Production Sponsor: Bob Ellis
Production Sponsor: John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn
Production Sponsor: Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for New Productions
Production Sponsor: the National Endowment for the Arts
Amina Edris and Taylor Raven’s appearances are made possible by a gift to the Emerging Stars Fund by Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem.
Notes
WORLD PREMIERE
San Francisco Opera co-commission and co-production with the Metropolitan Opera and Liceu Opera Barcelona.
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Libretto by John Adams based on William Shakespeare's tragedy, Antony and Cleopatra, with supplementary passages from Plutarch, Virgil, and other classical texts.
Libretto consultation by Elkhanah Pulitzer and Lucia Scheckner.
Presented by arrangement with Hendon Music, Inc., a Boosey & Hawkes company, publisher, and copyright owner.
Chorus of Roman people, Egyptian people, essentially the vox populi