

Photo: Elliott Franks/WireImage
Frances Barber being Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare at the Shakespeare's Globe Theater in 2006


In London on Febuary 20, 1724 soprano, Francesca Cuzzoni (1696-1778), created the role of Cleopatra in Georg Friedrich Händel's 1724 opera, Giulio Cesare in Egitto.