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Marc-Antoine becomes infatuated with Cléopâtre after Rome conquers Egypt. He abandons his Roman obligations, returns to Octavie, then is drawn back to Cléopâtre. Deceived into believing she has died, he wounds himself; she brings him to her side and dies by a poisonous snakebite.
Henry Février’s three-act French grand opera adapts Victorien Sardou’s 1894 play Gismonda. It premiered in Chicago with Mary Garden in the title role before its Paris staging later in 1919.
Marc-Antoine becomes infatuated with Cléopâtre after Rome conquers Egypt. He abandons his Roman obligations, returns to Octavie, then is drawn back to Cléopâtre. Deceived into believing she has died, he wounds himself; she brings him to her side and dies by a poisonous snakebite.
Henry Février’s three-act French grand opera adapts Victorien Sardou’s 1894 play Gismonda. It premiered in Chicago with Mary Garden in the title role before its Paris staging later in 1919.