В 1964 Барбер получил заказ на оперу Антоний и Клеопатра по Шекспиру; в создании ее либретто композитор сотрудничал с режиссером Ф.Дзеффирелли.
Премьерой этого произведения было ознаменовано открытие 16 сентября 1966 нового здания нью-йоркской «Метрополитен-опера».

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Треклист:
CD 1:
Act I
01 Prologue   
02 Scene 1 'These strong Egyptian fetters'    
03 'I am sick and sullen'    
04 Orchestral Interlude    
05 Scene 2 'Ah! Hail, Marcus Antonius!'    
06 Scene 3 'Give me some music'    
07 Slaves' dance /orchestral   
08 Scene 4 'A sister I bequeath you'    
09 Aria - 'When first she met Mark Anthony'    
10 Vision of Cleopatra's barge /orchestral   
Act II
11 Scene 1 'Contemning Rome, he has done all this'    
12 Scene 2 'Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas'
13 'Hush, here come the Queen and Antony'    
14 Scene 3 'The night is shiny'    
15 Scene 4 'Inside the tent'    
16 Duet - 'Oh take, oh take those lips away'    

CD 2:    
01 Scene 5 'On to our ships'    
02 Aria -  'Hark! the land bids me tread no more upon it'    
03 Scene 6 'Most kind ambassador'
04 Scene 7 'Oh, bear me witness'    
05 Aria - 'O sov'reign mistress of tre melancholy'    
06 Orchestral Interlude    
07 Scene 8 'The last she spoke'
08 'Where's Antony?'    
Act III
09 Scene 1 'O Charmian, I will never go from hence'    
10 Trio - 'My lord, my lord!' (On the death of Antony)    
11 'The breaking of so great a thing'
12 Prelude    
13 Scene 2
14 'Here is a rural fellow'    
15 Aria - 'Give me my robe'
16 Death of Cleopatra: 'She looks like sleep'

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt - Esther Hinds (soprano)
Antony, Roman general - Jeffrey Wells (bass-baritone)
Enobarbus, Antony's comrade - Eric Halfvarson (bass)
Agrippa, a senator - Charles Damsel (baritone)
Charmian, Cleopatra's attendant - Kathryn Cowdrick (mezzo)
Iras, Cleopatra's attendant - Jane Bunnell (mezzo)
Caesar, ruler of Rome - Robert Grayson (tenor)
Maecenas, a senator - Mark Cleveland (bass)
A Messenger - Steven Cole (tenor)
Eros, Antony's shield-bearer - David Hickox (tenor)
Dolabella, Caesar's emissary - David Hamilton
Thidias, Caesar's ambassador - Kent Weaver
Senator - Ian Clark
Alexas, Cleopatra's Attendant - Dale Stine
A Soothsayer - Philip Skinner (bass)
First Guard - Robert Swensen (tenor)
Second Guard - Charles Damsel
Third Guard - David Hamilton
Fourth Guard - Philip Skinner
First Soldier - Rob Phillips
Second Soldier - Alan Arak (baritone)
A Soldier of Caesar - Robert Swensen
A Rustic - Philip Skinner
Guardsman - David Dik

Westminster Choir/Joseph Flummerfelt
Spoleto Festival Orchestra, con. Christian Badea
(1983)

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