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John
Adams:
Antony and Cleopatra
Celebrated
American composer John Adams joins us on the Folger
podcast to discuss his new opera, Antony and
Cleopatra, receiving its world premiere right now
as part of the San Francisco Opera's centennial season.
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Adapting
Shakespeare
for Opera
When it
comes to writing the libretto for an opera, how do you
distill the epic story of Antony and Cleopatra
to only two acts? Dramaturg and libretto consultant
Lucia Scheckner gives us an inside look.
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Shakespeare's
daughter
In the
opening scene of Jennifer Falkner’s novella Susanna
Hall, Her Book, England's queen unexpectedly comes
to see Shakespeare's eldest daughter, Susanna.
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What's
onstage this month
We
check in with our theater partners to see what's
onstage this month across America, including Love
Labor's Lost at American Players Theatre, pictured
above.
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Shuffling
off this mortal coil
"For
early modern English Christians, dying was an art
form," writes Folger Fellow Eileen Sperry in this
blog post about ars moriendi texts in the 16th
and early 17th centuries.
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#FolgerFinds
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the Folger collection, follow @FolgerLibrary
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Image Credits: Amina Edris (Cleopatra),
John Adams's Antony and Cleopatra, San Francisco
Opera, 2022. Photo: Cory Weaver / San Francisco
Opera. | "Spotlight on Design" panel
discussion photo by Lloyd Wolf. | “Love’s Labor’s
Lost,” at American Players Theatre. Photo by Liz
Lauren. | Christopher Sutton, ‘Disce viuere: learne
to liue. Disce mori: learne to dye’, Folger call
number STC 23488.8. Photograph © Eileen Sperry.
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