Antony and Cleopatra

American  

noun

1. a tragedy (1606–07?) by Shakespeare.

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Antony and Cleopatra Cultural  

1. A tragedy by William Shakespeare. It dramatizes the grand but ill-fated love of the Roman general Mark Antony and Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt (see also Egypt).

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Example Sentences

In 1966, the Met premiered Samuel Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra," a Shakespeare-inspired spectacle that was panned by the New York Times as an "artifice with a great flourish masquerading as art," producing music that "abounded in declamation and pageantry" but failed to explore the subject — love between a man and woman — and couldn't be saved by Leontyne Price singing at the peak of her powers.

From Salon

Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra" never saw the light of the Met's starry chandeliers again, but under Gelb's leadership, the venerable opera company has been reserving an increasingly spacious part of its seasonal repertoire for newly composed and commissioned operas.

From Salon

An audience member who was at the performance of Antony and Cleopatra told the BBC he heard "hissing from above", before seeing "an object fall through the roof - and into the crowd".

From BBC

In 1966, when the Lincoln Center house was opened, a turntable malfunctioned at a dress rehearsal for Barber’s “Antony and Cleopatra.”

From New York Times

The 2024-25 season will open in September with “Grounded,” about the toll of drone warfare, by Jeanine Tesori and George Brant, and will also feature the modern works “Moby-Dick,” by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer; “Ainadamar,” by Osvaldo Golijov and David Henry Hwang and “Antony and Cleopatra,” by John Adams.

From New York Times