Volpone (opera)
# Volpone (opera)

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.

## Synopsis

A 16th-century man pretends to be dying to obtain money from his prospective heirs.

