David McVicar Trailers
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Most Popular David McVicar Trailers
Total trailers found: 46
Royal Opera House: Andrea Chénier Trailer (2024)
11 June 2024
At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI.
Giulio Cesare Trailer (2005)
01 December 2005
David McVicar’s production of Giulio Cesare manages to combine serious insight with entertainment, bringing Handel's masterpiece to life in a powerful, convincing and highly intelligent way.
Ariodante - Wiener Staatsoper Trailer (2018)
01 March 2018
It is a work charged with jealousy and intrigue, with struggles and betrayal: Ariodante, Handel’s first work for the then brand new Theatre Royal in Covent Garden.
The Marriage of Figaro - ROH Trailer (2019)
09 July 2019
A count has designs on his personal valet's fiancée and is determined to stop their wedding taking place.
Royal Opera House: Salomé Trailer (2008)
28 February 2008
David McVicar’s powerful Royal Opera House 2008 production of Strauss's opera – based on a play by Oscar Wilde – takes the controversial and disturbing film 120 Days of Sodom as its visual reference.
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Trailer (2012)
02 September 2012
In “a Wagner staging to treasure” (The Sunday Telegraph), the 2011 Glyndebourne Festival brings to life the legendary German composer’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
Verdi: Macbeth Trailer (2021)
17 September 2021
David McVicar's production of Verdi's 1847 opera Macbeth.
Rigoletto Trailer (2012)
30 March 2012
David McVicars Production of Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House 2012, with Dimitri Platanias, Ekaterina Siurina, Vittorio Grigolo and John Elliot Gardiner conducting.
The Metropolitan Opera: Fedora Trailer (2023)
14 January 2023
Umberto Giordano’s exhilarating drama returns to the Met repertory for the first time in 25 years. Packed with memorable melodies, showstopping arias, and explosive confrontations, Fedora requires a cast of thrilling voices to take flight, and the Met’s new production promises to deliver.
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - The San Francisco Opera Trailer (2015)
18 November 2015
It is love at first sight when the knight Walther von Stolzing first meets the goldsmith’s daughter, Eva.
Natalie Dessay & Rolando Villazón - Massenet: Manon Trailer (2007)
12 June 2007
Natalie Dessay and Rolando Villazón bring Jules Massenet's classic opera to the stage in this dazzling production.
The Metropolitan Opera: Tosca Trailer (2018)
27 January 2018
Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thrilled Met audiences when it rang in the New Year in 2018.
The Metropolitan Opera: Medea Trailer (2022)
22 October 2022
Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory’s fiercest soprano roles, Sondra Radvanovsky stars as the mythic sorceress who will stop at nothing in her quest for vengeance.
Royal Opera House: The Magic Flute Trailer (2017)
27 September 2017
Prince Tamino promises the Queen of the Night that he will rescue her daughter Pamina from the enchanter Sarastro.
Gloriana Trailer (2018)
01 January 2018
Performed at Madrid's historic Teatro Real in 2018, Ivor Bolton conducts Benjamin Britten's opera based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History.
Faust Trailer (2004)
19 June 2004
David McVicar's spectacular production of Charles Gounod’s Faust, featuring a divine cast of opera’s superstars: Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside and Sophie Koch – recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 19 June 2004.
Adriana Lecouvreur Trailer (2010)
01 January 2010
Starring Angela Gheorghiu as the celebrated French actress Adriana Lecouvreur and Jonas Kaufmann as her lover Maurizio, Count of Saxony, Cilea s verismo drama explores celebrity, romance, jealousy, and death.
Rigoletto Trailer (2001)
19 September 2001
Live recording at Royal Opera House, 22 September, 2001. Television live relay. In one of the Royal Opera’s most celebrated and popular productions, director David McVicar mixes lavish historical costumes and dark stylized settings to highlight the savagery and excitement of Verdi’s tale of misdirected revenge.
The Metropolitan Opera: Norma Trailer (2017)
07 October 2017
Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scorned by the Roman proconsul Pollione, with whom she has two children.
The Metropolitan Opera: Giulio Cesare Trailer (2013)
27 April 2013
David McVicar’s inventive hit production of Handel’s most popular opera sets the story of Caesar’s conquest of Egypt—and of its queen, Cleopatra—in the era of British 19th-century imperialism while also including elements of Baroque theater and Bollywood movies.
The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda Trailer (2013)
19 January 2013
Joyce DiDonato gives a sensational performance as Mary, Queen of Scots, in Donizetti’s bel canto drama, opposite Elza van den Heever as Queen Elizabeth.
The Metropolitan Opera: Anna Bolena Trailer (2011)
15 October 2011
David McVicar's atmospheric and brooding production captures the drama of this riveting piece of British history, retold as only Donizetti could.
The Metropolitan Opera: Adriana Lecouvreur Trailer (2019)
12 January 2019
Soprano Anna Netrebko joins the ranks of Renata Tebaldi, Montserrat Caballé, and Renata Scotto, taking on—for the first time at the Met—the title role of the real-life French actress who dazzled 18th-century audiences with her on-and offstage passion.
The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore Trailer (2011)
30 April 2011
Verdi’s IL TROVATORE again storms the Met stage in a star-studded, anvil-wielding cast , including Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick and Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
Mozart: Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail Trailer (2015)
19 July 2015
In the 18th century, in the palace of Pasha Selim, in a purely imaginary Turkey. Belmonte, a young Spanish nobleman, is searching for his fiancée, Constance, who has been captured by pirates and sold to Pasha Selim.
Les Troyens Trailer (2012)
25 June 2012
After the destruction of Troy, the Trojan warrior Énée sets out on a journey to found a new dynasty.
Carmen Trailer (2002)
25 July 2002
David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores the Opera Comique to Bizet's masterpiece.
The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina Trailer (2020)
29 February 2020
As the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of Handel’s tale of deception and deceit.
Les Troyens - San Francisco Opera Trailer (2015)
07 June 2015
Witness the fall of Troy and the rise of an even greater nation in Hector Berlioz’s monumental five-part epic The Trojans.
The Met — Il Trovatore Trailer (2015)
03 October 2015
Soprano Anna Netrebko appears in her highly anticipated Met role debut as Leonora, the tortured heroine who sacrifices her own life for the love of the Gypsy troubadour.
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlos Trailer (2022)
26 March 2022
For the first time in company history, the Met presents the original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doomed love among royalty, set against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition.
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail Trailer (2015)
19 July 2015
In the 18th century, in the palace of Pasha Selim, in a purely imaginary Turkey. Belmonte, a young Spanish nobleman, is searching for his fiancée, Constance, who has been captured by pirates and sold to Pasha Selim.
Royal Ballet & Opera 2025/26: The Magic Flute Trailer (2026)
21 April 2026
Princess Pamina has been captured. Her mother, the Queen of the Night, tasks the young Prince Tamino with her daughter’s rescue.
The Magic Flute Trailer (2003)
27 January 2003
The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina.
Royal Opera House: The Marriage of Figaro Trailer (2006)
17 February 2006
David McVicar's spellbinding production of LE NOZZE DI FIGARO is set in 1830s post-revolution France, where the inexorable unravelling of an old order has produced acute feelings of loss.
Royal Opera House Live 2024/25: The Marriage of Figaro Trailer (2024)
10 September 2024
Count Almaviva lives with his Countess on their estate near Seville. The Count has his eye on his wife’s maid Susanna, who is betrothed to the Count’s servant, Figaro.
The Metropolitan Opera: Tosca Trailer (2024)
23 November 2024
Extraordinary soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the volatile diva Floria Tosca for the first time at the Met.
The Metropolitan Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci Trailer (2015)
23 April 2015
Director David McVicar’s new production brings opera’s favorite double bill to new life, setting the two operas in the same Sicilian setting, separated by two generations.
Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda @ Teatro Real, Madrid Trailer (2024)
20 December 2024
A masterpiece of bel canto at the Teatro Real in Madrid: conductor José Miguel Pérez-Sierra and director David McVicar take on Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, with Lisette Oropesa in the title role.
Royal Opera House: Andrea Chernier Trailer (2015)
02 October 2015
“Kaufmann is performing the title role for the first time, and it’s hard to imagine him bettered.
The ROH Live: Rigoletto Trailer (2017)
14 December 2017
Rigoletto, court jester to the libertine Duke of Mantua, is cursed by the father of one of the Duke’s victims for his irreverent laughter.
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia Trailer (2013)
04 November 2013
Sarah Connolly's 'outstanding' (The Guardian) portrayal of the wronged Roman noblewoman, written originally for Kathleen Ferrier, lies at the hear of David McVicar's powerfully stark production for English National Opera as 'an everyday sort of woman who could be living at any time or place'.
The Royal Opera: The Marriage Of Figaro Trailer (2015)
06 November 2015
Figaro and Susanna are looking forward to their wedding day – but Figaro’s master, Count Almaviva has designs on Susanna.
