Leontyne Price sang at the world premiere of which Barber opera?
The Ghosts of Versailles
Vanessa
Antony and Cleopatra
Eugene Onegin
Answer
Antony and Cleopatra is an opera in three acts by Samuel Barber, with a libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, based on Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, where it received its world premiere on September 16, 1966, with Leontyne Price in the title role.
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