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Buxton International Festival – Hasse’s Antonio e Cleopatra

Hasse’s serenata Antonio e Cleopatra (1725) imagines the moment after the Battle of Actium when Mark Antony meets again his lover, Cleopatra, and they reflect on what fate now holds for them. The memory of this doomed pair seems to be a curious subject for this chamber-scale, occasional work intended to glorify the Holy Roman Emperor Charles …

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