Arrigo Boito Trailers
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Total trailers found: 45
The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff Trailer (2023)
01 April 2023
Baritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance, in Verdi’s glorious Shakespearean comedy.
Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra Trailer (1995)
26 January 1995
This evocative production by Giancarlo Del Monaco sumptuously captures the look and feel of 14th century Genoa and is a perfect compliment to Verdi’s setting of this story of searing conflict between public duty and private grief.
Verdi: Otello Trailer (2014)
02 June 2014
Rarely has a production of Verdi’s Otello been staged in such a prestigious location: the courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice! This special outdoor “event production” of the Teatro La Fenice takes place amidst genuine late-Gothic and Renaissance architecture highlighted by spectacular projections: “A set of singular fascination” (Il Corriere Musicale).
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra Trailer (2018)
14 March 2018
A tragic tale in which love and filial sentiment battle in a political intrigue around the fascinating character of Simon, a privateer become doge: Simon Boccanegra is one of Verdi’s greatest operas, over which floats the shadow of his admiration for Shakespeare.
Verdi Otello Trailer (1962)
01 February 1962
Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic performance outside of Italy to her final appearance on the opera stage.
Verdi: Otello Trailer (2015)
16 October 2015
Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher’s bold new production probes the psychological underpinnings of Verdi’s dynamic setting of Shakespeare’s great tragedy.
Mefistofele Trailer (2016)
01 January 2016
The director, Roland Schwab, has created his version of Hell. The set is like a high iron walled hanger and the stage is continually occupied with people who look like fugitives from Mad Max and who interact with Mefistofele.
Falstaff Trailer (2021)
29 December 2021
As the saying goes, “Shakespeare invented him, Verdi made him immortal” – and, surely, it was Bryn Terfel who defined him.
Otello Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
One of the chief pleasures of this live production of Otello from the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden is Daniel Barenboim's conducting.
Falstaff Trailer (2000)
06 July 2000
The Graham Vicks production of FALSTAFF opened the new Covent Garden Royal Opera House, and was not to everybody's taste; the garish primary colours of the costumes.
Kaufmann's Otello at the Royal Opera House Trailer (2017)
21 June 2017
On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jonas Kaufmann, recently acclaimed by The Daily Telegraph as the world s greatest tenor, make his eagerly anticipated debut in the title role of Otello Verdi s greatest and most demanding role for tenor voice.
Otello Trailer (1992)
27 October 1992
The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Mefistofele Trailer (2013)
09 July 2013
The season kicks off with Boitos resplendent retelling of Goethes Faust, a monumental work of 'choral grandeur and melodic richness' (The New York Times) in one of the most impressive productions ever seen at the War Memorial Opera House.
Falstaff Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there remained within him one last great comedy fighting to get out that we owe this absolute miracle of an opera.
Verdi: Falstaff Trailer (2013)
14 December 2013
Music Director James Levine conducts his first new Met production after a two-year absence: Robert Carsen’s hit staging of Verdi’s great human comedy.
Otello Trailer (1973)
21 May 1973
Herbert von Karajan directed this film of Verdi’s Shakespearan masterpiece as well as conducting the Berlin Philharmonic.
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra Trailer (2018)
13 December 2018
The ambiguities of Verdi’s theatre are particularly clear in his baritone roles, among which is that of Boccanegra, corsair turned doge of Genoa and the troubled observer of the conflicts that tore apart 14th century landowners and peasants.
Otello Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
'Otello' by Giuseppe Verdi , Welsh National Opera, 1987, directed by Peter Stein
Hymn of the Nations Trailer (1944)
01 February 1944
Commissioned by the U.S. Office of War Information, this short film features conductor Arturo Toscanini leading the NBC Symphony Orchestra, tenor Jan Peerce, and the Westminster Choir in Verdi’s Inno delle nazioni.
La Gioconda Trailer (1986)
01 December 1986
Recorded live at the Vienna State Opera, Placido Domingo and Eva Marton star in a sumptuous recording of Ponchielli's famed four-act melodrama, a story of tyranny and intrigue set in semi-historical and ever-romantic Venice.
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra Trailer (1978)
27 October 1978
Abbado wholly vindicates Verdi’s intentions through his feeling for the shape of a whole scene, for the inherent subtleties of Verdi’s scoring and for certain rhythmic effects.
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra Trailer (1985)
13 July 1985
The ambiguities of Verdi’s theatre are particularly clear in his baritone roles, among which is that of Boccanegra, corsair turned doge of Genoa and the troubled observer of the conflicts that tore apart 14th century landowners and peasants.
Otello Trailer (1995)
01 October 1995
Verdi’s monumental score is fully the equal of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy—and both demand great actors.
Otello Trailer (2001)
07 December 2001
This was Domingo's last set of performances as Otello in La Scala. In spite of his relatively advanced age, he is still in excellent form, both vocally and in terms of stage presence.
Otello Trailer (1986)
04 September 1986
Based on Shakespeare's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon".
Nero and Agrippina Trailer (1914)
01 January 1914
Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.
Il Mefistofele Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
Arrigo Boito's most known work is Il Mefestefele, first performed in 1868. Russell's modern interpretation presented by the Genoese Opera has Faust as an ageing hippy, who smokes marijuana and is tormented by his lost youth.
Verdi: Falstaff Trailer (2011)
10 October 2011
In England, at Windsor during the reign of Henry IV of England (1399–1413). Sir John Falstaff, also known as ‘Il Pancione’ (the Potbelly), has two identical love letters sent out, one to Meg Page and the other to Alice Ford, then delivers a sarcastic lecture on honour to his servants Bardolfo and Pistola.
Messa da Requiem (2011) Trailer (2011)
06 October 2011
A requiem inspired by the death, on May 22, 1873, of the Italian poet and writer Alessandro Manzoni, author of the novel “The Betrothal”.
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra Trailer (2010)
23 March 2010
In the 14th century, Genoa was torn apart by strife between the patricians and the plebeians. The sailor Simon Boccanegra and his lover Maria Fiesco bore the brunt of these internal conflicts: Maria’s father was none other than the city’s doge, the patrician Jacopo Fiesco.
Otello Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
José Cura sings and acts here with an inwardness and intensity which make a profound impression. So does Krassimira Stoyanova as Desdemona, not in the first flush of youth, but heartfelt and direct; while Lado Ataneli's Jago is a brilliantly understated study in jovial malevolence.
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Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera] Trailer (2011)
22 February 2011
When this sumptuous production by Giancarlo del Monaco opened in 1995, legendary tenor Plácido Domingo gave a riveting performance as the fiery revolutionary Gabriele Adorno, a tenor part.
Simon Boccanegra - Teatro La Scala Milano Trailer (2010)
16 April 2010
Opera di Giuseppe Verdi a Milano.
Otello Trailer (1982)
01 December 1982
Verdi's 'Otello', based on Shakespeare's famous tragedy, is performed at the famous Arena of Verona, with Kiri Te Kanawa and Vladimir Atlantov heading an international cast.
The Metropolitan Opera: Otello Trailer (2012)
27 October 2012
In Verdi’s retelling of Shakespeare’s towering tragedy, Renée Fleming gives a captivating performance as the innocent Desdemona, a role long considered one of her calling cards.
Verdi: Otello Trailer (2008)
05 August 2008
In the 16th century, in Cyprus, at the port of Famagusta, General Otello arrives with his ship after defeating the Turkish navy in the Mediterranean and securing Venetian rule over Cyprus, but jealousy, conspiracy and revenge lead to tragedy.
Otello Trailer (1958)
01 January 1958
This 1958 filmed version of Verdi's masterful Otello stars Mario Del Monaco, perhaps the greatest Otello of the 21st century, as the tragic moor who is consumed by jealousy thanks to the machinations of the villainous Jago.
Otello - Teatro Real Madrid (Palumbo) Trailer (2016)
25 September 2016
The classic opera by Giuseppe Verdi, brought to Teatro Real Madrid with stars such as Ermonela Jaho and Gregory Kunde in 2016, conducted by Renato Palumbo.
Falstaff Trailer (1987)
16 October 1987
Based, in part, on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff is Verdi's last work for the stage - and only his second comic opera.
Mefistofele Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
1989 recording of the San Francisco Opera production of Mefistofele: Boito's retelling of Goethe's Ft
Mefistofele (Teatro dell'Opera di Roma) Trailer (2023)
01 January 2023
To open the 2023–24 opera season, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma presents a new production of *Mefistofele*.
Verdi: Otello Trailer (2018)
02 December 2018
Like an outcry the elemental force of the orchestra shatters the silence, the storm on the coast of Cyprus rages incessantly.
