Cléopâtre
Cléopâtre è un’opera in french di Jules Massenet, rappresentata per la prima volta nel 1914.
Cléopâtre is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Payen. It was first performed at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo on 23 February 1914, nearly two years after Massenet's death.
Trama di Cléopâtre
The story concerns the ill-fated love of Cléopâtre and Marc-Antoine. Marc-Antoine sees Cléopâtre for the first time following the conquering of Egypt and is instantly entranced by her beauty. Dismissing his obligations in Rome, Marc-Antoine goes with Cléopâtre, and even after returning to fulfill his promise of marriage to Octavia, he is lured back by lust and jealousy. Being told, falsely, that Cléopâtre has been killed, Marc-Antoine falls on his own sword and is then brought to Cléopâtre. As she watches him die by her side, she pulls a poisonous snake from a basket of fruit and clutches it to her breast.
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Cast e personaggi di Cléopâtre
12 personaggi documentati da Wikidata con indicazione del registro vocale:
- personSpakos (tenor)
- personCharmion (soprano)
- personOctavie (soprano)
- personA voice (baritone)
- personEnnius (baritone)
- personAmnhès (baritone)
- personL'Esclave de la Porte (baritone)
- personMarc-Antoine (baritone)
- personSévérus (baritone)
- personCléopâtre (mezzo-soprano)
- personAdamos
- personOctave
Libretto di Cléopâtre
Il libretto è scritto da Louis Payen.
Opere contemporanee
Rappresentate nel decennio a cavallo del 1914, altre 6 opere del repertorio archiviato di compositori diversi:
- Déjanire — Camille Saint-Saëns (1911)
- Isabeau — Pietro Mascagni (1911)
- Zingari — Ruggero Leoncavallo (1912)
- Are You There? — Ruggero Leoncavallo (1913)
- Parisina — Pietro Mascagni (1913)
- Madame Sans-Gêne — Umberto Giordano (1915)
Altre opere di Jules Massenet
- La grand'tante (1867)
- Don César de Bazan (1872)
- Marie-Magdeleine (1873)
- Le roi de Lahore (1877)
- Hérodiade (1881)
- Manon (1884)
- Le Cid (1885)
- Esclarmonde (1889)
- Le mage (1891)
- Werther (1892)
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