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Welcome to Opera-Online! Welcome students and teachers to Opera Online. This week we will continue to look the The Curtis Institute's production of Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra which is being presented in in association with Opera Company of Philadelphia and Kimmel Center Presents . YouTube Clip of the Week To familiarize you some more with Antony and Cleopatra and Barbers musical style we will take a look at another extract from the opera. C. Malfitano & R. Cowan "I am sick and sullen" Web Site of the Week The Curtis Institute of Music is one of the worlds leading music school. It educates and trains exceptionally gifted young musicians for careers as performing artists on the highest professional level. To find out more about the Curtis Institute logon on to their web site . Opera on the Air On March 13th at 1pm WRTI radio will broadcast the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Dmitri Shostakovich: THE NOSE conducted by Valery Gergiev staring Andrei Popo...

Welcome to Opera-Online! Welcome students and teachers to Opera Online. This week we will look the The Curtis Institute's production of Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra which is being presented in in association with Opera Company of Philadelphia and Kimmel Center Presents . YouTube Clip of the Week To familiarize you with Antony and Cleopatra and indeed Barber's musical style we will take a look at Cleopatra’s aria “Give me my robe”. In the final moments of the opera, Cleopatra muses on her love for Antony, who has killed himself. Feeling all is lost, she kills herself with the bite of a poisonous snake, an asp. We'll see a concert performance of the aria as performed by American soprano Carol Vaness . Carol Vaness "Give me my Robe" Antony and Cleopatra Web Site of the Week The Opera is set around 51 B.C. when Cleopatra came to rule. To find out more about Ancient Egypt, visit this web site where you will find information about pyramids, pharaohs and t...