Experiencing Florent Schmitt’s Antony & Cleopatra (1920) in a dramatic adaptation: An eyewitness report from London.

October 10, 2016 · by Phillip Nones | in Classical Music, Composers, French Composers | tagged Andre Gide, Antoine et Cleopatre, Antony & Cleopatra, BBC Symphony, Bill Barclay, Bramwell Tovey, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Camille Chevillard, Edmund Harris, Florent Schmitt, Ida Rubinstein, Iqbal Khan, Janie Dee, JoAnn Falletta, LAPO, Leonid Desyatnikov, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mark Pullinger, Olivier Messiaen, Sakara Oramo, Shakespeare 400, Shakespeare's Glob, The Children of Rosenthal, Turangalila | Leave a comment

In 2010, the American conductor JoAnn Falletta resurrected a Florent Schmitt rarity: The Suite No. 1 from the incidental music the composer had written for Andre Gide’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play Antony & Cleopatra. It was an Ida Rubinstein production done in her characteristically outré style: an entire-evening extravaganza mounted at the Paris Opéra. […]