Opera in Two Acts. Libretto adapted by John Adams from Shakespeare with supplementary passages from Plutarch, Virgil and other classical texts. Libretto consultation by Elkhanah Pulitzer and Lucia Scheckner.
Creative Team:
Composer: John Adams
Conductor: John Adams
Director and Libretto Consultant: Elkhanah Pulitzer
Set Designer: Mimi Lien
Costume Designer: Constance Hoffman
Lighting Designer: David Finn
Projection Designer: Bill Morrison
Dramaturg and Libretto Consultant: Lucia Scheckner
Choreography: Xavi Martinez
Cast:
Cleopatra: Julia Bullock
Antony: Gerald Finley
Caesar: Paul Appleby
Enobarbus: Alfred Walker
Octavia: Elizabeth DeShong
Charmian: Adriana Bignagni Lesca
Eros: Brenton Ryan
Agrippa: Äneas Humm
Maecenas: Toni Marsol
Iras: Marta Infante
Scarus: Milan Perišić
Lepidus: Guillem Batllori
Gran Teatre del Liceu Orchestra and Gran Teatre del Liceu Chorus
A co-commission and co-production between San Francisco Opera, the Metropolitan Opera and Liceu Opera Barcelona.
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What really interests Adams and Pulitzer is to underline the multiple faces of the love-hate relationship between two mature lovers, Antony and Cleopatra, imprisoned by their desires, ambitions, obligations and fears. And it is in the fragility of the characters where the most exciting moments emerge...
— Scherzo
Pulitzer's staging, designed by Mimi Lien, with video interludes by Bill Morrison conjuring 1940s newsreels in the era of Italian fascism, was handsome and efficient.
— The Guardian
Elkhanah Pulitzer's staging is a temporal ellipsis....In the end it is a clear and coherent staging with the text, lively in its acting and cinematography in its development.
— La Vanguardia
The confusion could have been monumental, but the skill of Elkhanah Pulitzer, who signs the stage direction, makes all these multiple references fit together well and constructs a theatrically coherent if entirely predictable narrative.
— Opera Online
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