Gary Halvorson Trailers
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Gary Halvorson is an American director of television shows, series and film.
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Live at the Met: From Stage to Screen Trailer (2015)
25 April 2015
This incredible look at the preparation and production of a Live in HD cinema transmission takes you behind the scenes of the new Cav/Pag with the HD director, host, stars, and crew for an up-close view of the exciting process behind the Met's extraordinary HD presentations.
Rossini: Armida Trailer (2010)
01 May 2010
It is a rare opera indeed that calls for one soprano diva and no fewer than six tenors. Mary Zimmerman’s fanciful production of Rossini’s drama, designed by Richard Hudson and with choreography by Graciela Daniele, provides the perfect setting for superstar Renée Fleming’s captivating performance of the title role.
The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata Trailer (2022)
05 October 2022
Soprano Nadine Sierra stars as the self-sacrificing courtesan Violetta—one of opera’s ultimate heroines—in Michael Mayer’s vibrant production of Verdi’s beloved tragedy.
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni Trailer (2023)
20 May 2023
Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the dark corners of the story and its characters.
Piaf Trailer (1984)
10 June 1984
Piaf is a play by Pam Gems that focuses on the life and career of French chanteuse Édith Piaf. This recording presents the Tony Award-winning stage play with its original Broadway cast.
The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Manon Lescaut Trailer (2016)
05 March 2016
Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic end, and Roberto Alagna plays the man who falls for her in Puccini’s early hit.
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.
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann Trailer (2009)
29 December 2009
Live from the Metropolitan Opera 19 December 2009.
Mickey's Fun Songs: Campout at Walt Disney World Trailer (1994)
19 April 1994
Sing, dance, and play along with Mickey, Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and the Sing-Along Kids as they pitch their tents and explore Discovery Island, River Country, and even participate in a Talent Show in fun-filled musical adventures! It's easy as you read the on-screen lyrics to songs such as "Comin' Round the Mountain," "The Bare Necessities," and "Country Roads.
Verdi's Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11 Trailer (2021)
11 September 2021
Honor the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with this special performance hosted by Misty Copeland and led by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin featuring soloists Ailyn Pérez, Michelle DeYoung, Matthew Polenzani and Eric Owens.
The Metropolitan Opera: The Hours Trailer (2022)
10 December 2022
Renée Fleming makes her highly anticipated return to the Met in the world-premiere production of Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts’s The Hours, adapted from Michael Cunningham’s acclaimed novel.
The Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin Trailer (2016)
10 December 2016
Robert Lepage’s dreamlike production, with its thousands of twinkling LED lights stretching across the stage to represent the sea, encapsulates the mystic feeling of L’Amour de Loin, Saariaho’s haunting opera of distant love.
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.
Britten: Peter Grimes Trailer (2008)
15 March 2008
Anthony Dean Griffey creates a haunting portrait of the outcast fisherman who struggles under the burden of presumed guilt.
The Regard of Flight Trailer (1983)
17 February 1983
A performer/artist with a bag of vaudeville tricks and the help of his trusty piano player must prove to a critic that there is still a way to present New Theatre without relying on devices.
The Metropolitan Opera: Così fan tutte Trailer (2018)
31 March 2018
Two men enter a bet with intriguer Alfonso that their women will stay true, but disguise themselves, switch partners, and regretfully seduce their targets.
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: 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: The Magic Flute Trailer (2023)
03 June 2023
The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina.
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.
Disney Parks Unforgettable Christmas Celebration Trailer (2015)
25 December 2015
The 2015 Disney Parks Christmas Parade Special with musical performances, interviews, and parades.
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin Trailer (2013)
05 October 2013
The imperious Onegin rejects naive Tatiana's proposal of love and also incites a duel with his best friend turned rival Lenski (Piotr Beczala).
Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl Trailer (1994)
04 March 1994
He hasn't had a new Broadway show since 1983's La Cage Aux Folles, but composer Jerry Herman has become ubiquitous on the concert, tribute and benefit scene, as evidenced by a video release of "Jerry Herman's Broadway - at the Hollywood Bowl.
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle Trailer (2015)
14 February 2015
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas.
The Metropolitan Opera: The Flying Dutchman Trailer (2020)
14 March 2020
François Girard, whose revelatory 2013 take on Parsifal set the recent Met standard for Wagner stagings, now unveils a spellbinding new vision of the composer's tale of a cursed sea captain doomed to sail the open ocean for eternity.
True West Trailer (2002)
28 May 2002
Filmed play about two very different brothers, one a criminal and the other a screen-writing family man who becomes appalled by his wayward brother's relationship with a producer.
Elmo's Christmas Countdown Trailer (2007)
23 December 2007
There's a miracle on Sesame Street in this special holiday tale. Elmo, Abby Cadabby, and their new friend Stiller the Elf are going to count down to Christmas with the Christmas Counter-Downer.
Rossini: La Cenerentola Trailer (2009)
09 May 2009
"Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this delightful Metropolitan Opera production.
The Nick and Jessica Variety Hour Trailer (2004)
11 April 2004
America's favorite young married couple, Nick Lachey & Jessica Simpson, multi-platinum artists known from their hit MTV series, "Newlyweds," star in their first-ever television special, featuring a fun-filled variety hour of music and comedy.
Wagner: Das Rheingold Trailer (2010)
27 September 2010
In the depths of the Rhine, the three Rhinemaidens guard the Rhinegold, a treasure of immeasurable value.
The Metropolitan Opera: Grounded Trailer (2024)
19 October 2024
Two-time Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded, commissioned by the Met and based on librettist George Brant’s acclaimed play, wrestles with the ethical quandaries and psychological toll of 21st-century warfare.
The King and I Trailer (2018)
29 November 2018
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam.
Free to Be... a Family Trailer (1988)
14 December 1988
Seminal TV special about two groups of children, one in New York City and the other in Moscow, who befriend each other over a satellite connection and find common ground.
The Metropolitan Opera: The Exterminating Angel Trailer (2017)
18 November 2017
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with another masterpiece, this time inspired by filmmaker Luis Buñuel's seminal surrealist classic "El Ángel Exterminador", during the 2017–18 season.
Le comte Ory Trailer (2011)
09 April 2011
Rossini's "Le Comte Ory" tells the story of a libidinous and cunning nobleman who disguises himself first as a hermit and then as a nun in order to gain access to the virtuous Countess Adele, whose brother is away at the Crusades.
The Disneyland Story Trailer (1990)
24 July 1990
To commemorate Disneyland’s 35th anniversary, host Harry Anderson takes you back in time on the Disneyland Railroad (accompanied by the score to Back to the Future) through the history of Disneyland's timeline.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette Trailer (2007)
15 December 2007
The world’s most famous love story comes to operatic life with superstars Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna playing the star-crossed young couple.
Wagner: Götterdämmerung Trailer (2012)
27 January 2012
Ring Cycle, pt 4. Siegfried is drugged and tricked into kidnapping his wife, since she has the Ring now.
The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto Trailer (2022)
29 January 2022
One of opera’s grimmest tragedies received a powerful new production during the 2021–22 season when director Bartlett Sher unveiled his Weimar-era staging of Verdi’s Rigoletto.
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland Trailer (1999)
01 October 1999
Elmo loves his fuzzy, well-worn blue blanket more than anything in the whole world. However, when Elmo's blanket gets sucked through a colorful, swirling tunnel into Grouchland, the yuckiest place on earth, Elmo goes on an adventure to Grouchland to retrieve his prized possession.
Wagner: Siegfried Trailer (2011)
27 October 2011
Robert Lepage’s remarkable Met Opera production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 2013 Grammy Award Winner for Best Opera Recording, is now available as individual DVDs.
Puccini: La Bohème Trailer (2008)
01 June 2008
Puccini’s evergreen paean to young love and the bohemian life has captivated generations of Met-goers through Franco Zeffirelli’s iconic production.
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: 50 Years of Beautiful Trailer (2014)
03 February 2014
NBC and Time Inc. present Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: 50 Years of Beautiful, a two-hour TV special celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit franchise.
Massenet: Manon Trailer (2012)
17 April 2012
Star soprano Anna Netrebko scored a triumph in Laurent Pelly’s acclaimed 2012 production, singing the title heroine for the first time at the Met.
The Metropolitan Opera: The Tempest Trailer (2012)
09 November 2012
Composer Thomas Adès conducts the Met premiere of his powerful opera based on Shakespeare’s last play, in Robert Lepage’s brilliantly inventive production.
Strauss: Elektra Trailer (2016)
30 April 2016
The great singing actress Nina Stemme gives a heart-wrenching performance in the title role of Strauss’s blazing one-act drama, adapted from the ancient Greek myth.
The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro Trailer (2014)
18 October 2014
Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which opened the Met’s 2014–15 season, sets the action of Mozart’s timeless social comedy in a manor house in 1930s Seville.
Michael Buble's Christmas in New York Trailer (2014)
17 December 2014
Multi Grammy Award-winning singer Michael Bublé celebrates the holiday season with his fourth annual NBC Christmas special, "Michael Bublé's Christmas in New York," airing Wednesday, December 17 at 8/7c.
The Metropolitan Opera: Die Walküre Trailer (2011)
22 April 2011
Robert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons, was the first new Met production of the complete cycle in more than 20 years.
Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites Trailer (2019)
11 May 2019
Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic John Dexter production of Poulenc’s devastating story of faith and martyrdom.
Massenet: Thaïs Trailer (2008)
20 December 2008
When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is devoted to God, you know erotic sparks are going to fly.
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: Aida Trailer (2012)
15 December 2012
The Met’s spectacular production of Verdi’s Egyptian epic captures both the grandeur and the intimacy of this powerful tale of love and politics.
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: 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.
Michael Tilson Thomas: The Thomashefskys Trailer (2012)
24 April 2012
Michael Tilson Thomas explores the lives of his grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, through a musical performance that features five performers and the New World Symphony orchestra.
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: Werther Trailer (2014)
15 March 2014
Star tenor Jonas Kaufmann brings aching intensity and vocal charisma to the tortured title hero of Massenet’s Goethe adaptation.
