Volpone is a comic opera written in 1949–52 to a libretto by Alfred Perry based on the play by Ben Jonson, was George Antheil's third opera.
It was first performed in Manhattan in 1953 at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
[1] A 16th-century man pretends to be dying to obtain money from his prospective heirs.
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