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Lot 379
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Barber, Samuel

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Barber, Samuel
  • Typescript libretto for Act Two of Antony and Cleopatra, with extensive additions and alterations by the composer
  • paper
including a 2-page autograph scenario for Act Two and other passages of autograph additions in pencil, the typescript extensively annotated in pencil, occasionally also in ink, one passage revised on a slip of paper attached with a paper-clip, some pages inserted later from a golf-ball typewriter

28 pages, 4to, (c.28 x 21cm), in a ring-bound folder, with 7 pages of notes by Andrew Chiappe loosely inserted, no place or date, [1960s]

Condition

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Catalogue Note

Barber's three-act opera Antony and Cleopatra was staged at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York on 16 September 1966; he revised it with Gian Carlo Menotti during the later 1960s and it was performed again at the Juilliard School in 1975.