Cleopatra's Night
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Cleopatra's Night is a short opera in two acts by American composer Henry Kimball Hadley. Its libretto is by Alice Leal Pollock based on a story by French author Théophile Gautier. The opera premiered at the Metropolitan Opera on January 31, 1920. A subsequent performance was lead by the composer, the first American composer to conduct his own work there. The opera was revived the following season, and was broadcast on NBC radio in 1929.
Cleopatra's Night is written in an eclectic late romantic style, influenced both by the dramatic lyricism of the verismo movement and the rich orchestral approach employed by Wagner and Richard Strauss.
[edit] Characters
- Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt -- soprano
- Meïamoun, A Young Egyptian -- tenor
- Mark Antony -- baritone
- Mardion, Favored Maid to the Queen -- mezzo-soprano
- Iras, A Maiden -- mezzo-soprano
- A Eunuch -- baritone
- Antony's Chief Officer -- baritone
- A Guest -- tenor
- A Hungry Guest -- bass
- A Female Guest -- mezzo-soprano
- Diomedes, Chief of Cleopatra's rowers -- non-singing role
- The Distiller of Poisons -- non-singing role
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