Antony and Cleopatra (opera)

Antony and Cleopatra, Op. 40, adalah sebuah opera dalam tiga bagian karya komponis Amerika Serikat Samuel Barber. Libretto tersebut disiapkan oleh Franco Zeffirelli. Opera tersebut berdasarkan pada sandiwara Antony and Cleopatra karya William Shakespeare.

Antony and Cleopatra
Opera karya Samuel Barber
Metropolitan Opera House, dibuka dengan opera tersebut
LibrettistFranco Zeffirelli
Berdasarkan padaAntony and Cleopatra
oleh William Shakespeare
Penampilan perdana16 September 1966 (1966-09-16)
Metropolitan Opera, New York

Referensi sunting

  • Fiedler, Johanna (2003). Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at The Metropolitan Opera. New York: Anchor Books. ISBN 1-4000-3231-8.
  • Freeman, John W. (1997). The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas. New York: W. W. Norton Co. ISBN 0-393-04051-8.
  • Henahan, Donal (1975). "Juilliard Rehabilitating Antony and Cleopatra”. New York Times (February 8): 13.
  • 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. (2012). Samuel Barber: A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199744640. 

Bacaan tambahan sunting

  • Heyman, Barbara B. (1995), Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-509058-6 
  • Kolodin, Irving (1966). "Music to my Ears: Barber’s Antony, after Zeffirelli". Saturday Review (October 1).
  • Porter, Andrew (1975). "Antony’s Second Chance". The New Yorker (February 24): 123–24. Reprinted in his Music of Three Seasons: 1974–1977, 97–102. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1978.
  • Schonberg, Harold C. (1966). "Onstage, It Was 'Antony and Cleopatra'; New Opera by Barber a Bit Lost in Shuffle". New York Times (September 17).

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