His troops are defeated. His enemy is closing in. And now, the Roman general Mark Antony discovers that his beloved queen Cleopatra is dead, his name being her parting words.
Antony is overcome with emotions. Suddenly his armor feels suffocating: He commands his faithful aide Eros to remove it at once.
“O, cleave my sides! Crack thy frail case. No more a soldier. Bruised pieces, go! Unarm me, Eros,” Antony cries. “Off, pluck it off!”
But Antony has another reason for removing his armor: He plans to join Cleopatra in death. Antony believes Cleopatra’s suicide was a last act of defiance, a refusal to fall prey to her enemies.
“I, that quartered the world, now lack the courage of this noble woman,” he sings, trying to summon the strength to kill himself too. “I will overtake you, Cleopatra, right now with this sword!”
But what happens next was not what Antony predicted. Find out what happens when bass-baritone Gerald Finley takes the stage as the fallen general Mark Antony in John Adams’s “Antony and Cleopatra,” on stage now through October 5, 2022: sfopera.com/cleopatra/ #CleopatraSF
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