Live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City: John Adams conducts his latest opera, based on Shakespeare's immortal drama and starring Julia Bullock and Gerald Finley
Live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City: John Adams conducts his latest opera, based on Shakespeare's immortal drama and starring Julia Bullock and Gerald Finley as the irresistible Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and her conflicted Roman lover Antony. This Met première of Adams's lyrical and richly orchestrated score is a new staging that transports the story of troubled romance and political strife from ancient Rome to the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s.
Presented from the Met by Debra Lew Harder, with commentator Ira Siff.
Adams: Antony and Cleopatra
Cleopatra ..... Julia Bullock (soprano)
Antony ..... Gerald Finley (bass-baritone)
Caesar ..... Paul Appleby (tenor)
Octavia ..... Elizabeth DeShong (mezzo-soprano)
Charmian ..... Taylor Raven (mezzo-soprano)
Eros ..... Brenton Ryan (tenor)
Agrippa ..... Jarrett Ott (baritone)
Enobarbus ..... Alfred Walker (bass-baritone)
Lepidus.....Kevin Short (bass-baritone)
Scarus.....Michael Adams (baritone)
Iras.....Eve Gigliotti (mezzo-soprano)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor John Adams
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