Charles Anthony

Most Popular Charles Anthony Trailers

Total trailers found: 18

La Fanciulla del West Trailer (1992)

08 April 1992

Giancarlo Del Monaco’s atmospheric production brings to colorful life a 19th-century mining camp during the California Gold Rush.

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.

Un Ballo in Maschera Trailer (1991)

26 January 1991

Verdi's opera performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by James Levine.

Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg Trailer (2001)

08 December 2001

James Morris leads an all-star cast including Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, Thomas Allen and René Pape, in this production of Wagner's comic opera, recorded live at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 2001.

Un Ballo in Maschera Trailer (1980)

14 February 1980

Live from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather than Sweden.

Puccini: Turandot Trailer (2009)

07 November 2009

Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical China - is one of the most popular in the Met repertory.

The Metropolitan Opera - Wagner: Tannhäuser Trailer (1982)

20 December 1982

As renowned for its harmonious overture as for its romantic storybook characters, this three-act masterwork features some of the composer’s most groundbreaking and unforgettable music, as well as a theme the young Wagner would revisit again and again later in his career—the redemptive and transcendent power of a woman’s love.

Fedora Trailer (1997)

26 April 1997

Princess Fedora, who is to marry the Count the following day, arrives and sings of her love for him, unaware that the dissolute Count has betrayed her with another woman.

Samson et Dalila Trailer (1998)

28 September 1998

Elijah Moshinsky's production of Saint-Saëns's "Samson et Dalila", recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera 28 September 1998.

Il Tabarro & Pagliacci Trailer (1994)

26 September 1994

Puccini's Il Tabarro & Leoncavallo's Pagliacci; Pavarotti and Domingo star in MET 1994-1995 season opener.

Ernani Trailer (1983)

17 December 1983

Verdi's early masterpiece is based on a Victor Hugo play with a complicated plot concerning a young woman and the three men vying for her affections—her elderly uncle, a king destined to become Holy Roman Emperor, and a bandit who is actually an overthrown nobleman.

Otello Trailer (1995)

01 October 1995

Verdi’s monumental score is fully the equal of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy—and both demand great actors.

Stiffelio - The Met Trailer (1993)

13 November 1993

Giuseppe Verdi's opera of religion, revenge and redemption gets the star treatment in this 1993 Metropolitan Opera production conducted by James Levine and starring Plácido Domingo as the cuckolded man of God at the center of the tale.

Verdi: Rigoletto Trailer (1981)

15 December 1981

The opera's dramatic structure frames and enhances the characters. Scenes of magnificence regularly alternate with scenes of darkness and squalor.

Love in Ambush Trailer (1997)

28 February 1997

An Australian woman searches for her soldier brother in Cambodia during the civil breakdown from which Pol Pot would emerge.

Lohengrin Trailer (1986)

10 January 1986

Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just what we have here.

Ariadne auf Naxos Trailer (1988)

01 January 1988

Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, opposite the passionate Bacchus of the great James King.

Idomeneo Trailer (1982)

01 January 1982

Opera royalty Luciano Pavarotti brings dignity and power to the title role in this 1982 production. During a squall at sea, Idomeneo -- the king of Crete -- swears to Neptune that if the monarch survives, he'll sacrifice the first person he encounters onshore.