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Antony & Cleopatra is a London-based musical duo consisting of Alexander Burnett and Anita Blay, also known as CocknBullKid. The two met in 2014 at a pop music writing session before coming together to form a musical duo.
Blay was born in Clapton, east London to Ghanaian parents and raised in the city's Hackney area. [3] [4] Her mother left the family when she was 12 years old. [5]She cultivated an interest in music as a teenager, songwriting with rapper Plan B at a youth placement scheme when she was 16.
Arthur Ferrante (September 7, 1921, New York City – September 19, 2009, Longboat Key, Florida [1]), and Louis Teicher (August 24, 1924, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – August 3, 2008, Highlands, North Carolina) met while studying at the Juilliard School of Music in New York in 1930.
Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was first performed around 1607, by the King's Men at either the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre. [1] [2] Its first appearance in print was in the First Folio published in 1623, under the title The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra.
Mvula then wrote the music for the 2017 theatre production of Antony & Cleopatra by the Royal Shakespeare Company. While working on her third album, she released the 1/f EP in February 2021. In 2018, Mvula received an honorary doctorate of music from her alma mater , Birmingham City University .
Her recordings of Barber's Hermit Songs, scenes from Antony and Cleopatra, and Knoxville: Summer of 1915, were brought together on a CD, Leontyne Price Sings Barber. Late in her career, she recorded an album of Schubert and Strauss lieder for EMI, and, for Decca/London, an album of Verdi arias with the Israel Philharmonic, conducted by Zubin Mehta.
Antony and Cleopatra, Op. 40, is an opera in three acts by American composer Samuel Barber. The libretto was prepared by Franco Zeffirelli . It was based on the play Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare and made use of Shakespeare's language exclusively.
Antony and Cleopatra is an opera by American composer John Adams, premiered at the San Francisco Opera in September 2022. [1] An adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra, the libretto was written by John Adams with consultation by Elkhanah Pulitzer and Lucia Scheckner with text from Shakespeare's play, as well as supplementary passages from Plutarch, Virgil, and other ...