• Samuel Barber. Opera in three acts. 1966.
• Libretto by Franco Zeffirelli, based on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.
• First performance at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, on 16th September 1966.

Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra, revised in 1975 for a more successful production by Gian Carlo Menotti, uses a condensed version of Shakespeare’s play in a work of some lyrical intensity.