Samuel BARBER

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Anthony and Cleopatra

Vanessa

 

Anthony and Cleopatra

New York, 16 September 1966

New World, 1984

Chicago, 25 September 1991

 

* New York, Met

Performance : Friday, 16 September 1966

 

Leontyne Price

Justino Diaz

Jess Thomas

Rosalind Elias

Ezio Flagello

John Macurdy

Andrea Velis

Bιlen Amparan

Russell Christopher

Mary Ellen Pracht

Paul Franke

Gene Boucher

Robert Nagy

Raymond Michalsky

Lorenzo Alvary

Clifford Harvuot

Bruce Scott

Robert Goodloe

Louis Sgarro

Ron Bottcher

Norman Giffin

Lloyd Strang

Dan Marek

Robert Schmorr

Edward Ghazal

Norman Scott

John Trehy

Gabor Carelli

Paul de Paola

Luis Forero

Peter Sliker

– Cleopatra

– Antony

– Caesar

– Charmian

– Enobarbus

– Agrippa

– Mardian

– Iras

– Maecenas

– Octavia

– Messenger

– Dolabella

– Lepidus

– Alexas

– Soothsayer

– Rustic

– Eros

– Thidias

– Decretas

– Scarus

– Demetrius

– Candidus

– Captain

– First Guard

– Second Guard

– Third Guard

– Soldier of Anthony

– Soldier of Caesar

– First Watchman

– Second Watchman

– Sentinel

 

The Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra

conducted by Thomas Schippers

 

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* New World, 1984           camera_2.gif

Recording location : Spoleto, Festival dei Due Mondi

Recording date : June 1983, live

 

Esther Hinds

Jeffrey Wells

Robert Grayson

Kathryn Cowdrick

Eric Halfvarson

Charles Damsel

Jane Bunnell

Mark Cleveland

Steven Cole

David Hamilton

Dale Stine

Philip Skinner

David Hickox

Kent Weaver

Rob Phillips

Alan Arak

Ian Clark

David Dik

Robert Swensen

– Cleopatra

– Antony

– Caesar

– Charmian

– Enobarbus

– Agrippa / Second Guard

– Iras

– Maecenas

– Messenger

– Dolabella / Third Guard

– Alexas

– Rustic / Soothsayer / Fourth Guard

– Eros

– Thidias

– First Soldier

– Second Soldier

– Senator

– Guardsman

– Soldier of Caesar / First Guard

 

Westminster Choir

Spoleto Festival Orchestra

conducted by Christian Badea

 

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* Chicago, Lyric Opera

Performance : Wednesday, 25 September 1991

 

Catherine Malfitano

Richard Cowan

Wendy White

Eric Halfvarson

Michael Wadsworth

Nancy Maultsby

Beverly Fiel

Jacques Trussel

– Cleopatra

– Antony

– Charmian

– Enobarbus

– Agrippa

– Iras

– Octavia

– Octavius

 

Lyric Opera of Chicago Chorus and Orchestra

conducted by Richard Buckley

 

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Vanessa

New York, 15 December 1991

Chandos, 2003

 

* New York, Juilliard School Opera House

Performance : Sunday, 15 December 1991

"In House Recording"

 

Elizabeth Koch

Jane Gilbert

Diane Daniels

Jay Hunter Morris

Carlos Conde

Richard Woods

Franco Pomponi

Russell Dusick

– Vanessa

– Erika

– The Old Baroness

– Anatol

– The Old Doctor

– The Major Domo

– A Footman

– The Young Pastor

 

Juilliard Opera Chorus and Orchestra

conducted by Richard Bradshaw

 

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* Chandos, 2003           camera_2.gif

Recording location : London, Barbican Centre

Recording date : 15-16 November 2003

 

Christine Brewer

Susan Graham

Catherine Wyn-Rogers

William Burden

Neal Davies

Simon Birchall

Stephen Charlesworth

– Vanessa

– Erika

– The Old Baroness

– Anatol

– The Old Doctor

– The Major Domo

– A Footman

 

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Orchestra

conducted by Leonard Slatkin

 

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