Victor Callegari

Most Popular Victor Callegari Trailers

Total trailers found: 27

La Traviata - The Met Trailer (1981)

28 March 1981

James Levine leads a remarkable cast in one of Verdi’s most enduringly popular operas and brings fresh insights to this beloved score.

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.

L'Elisir d'Amore Trailer (1991)

11 November 1991

John Copley’s colorful production, with designs by Beni Montresor, was created around the beloved superstar Luciano Pavarotti.

The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel Trailer (2008)

01 January 2008

This deliciously dark take on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale, appealing to audiences of all ages, was part of the Met’s popular English-language holiday series.

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni Trailer (1978)

16 March 1978

Imbuing the familiar Don Juan myth with a captivating combination of comedy, seductiveness, danger, and damnation, Mozart created an enduring masterpiece that has been a cornerstone of the repertory since its 1787 premiere.

The Met - Tristan und Isolde Trailer (2008)

22 March 2008

James Levine’s love for this monumental opera shimmers throughout this exciting performance. It was an afternoon to remember: Met favorite Deborah Voigt singing her first run as the proud Irish princess opposite tenor Robert Dean Smith—making an astonishing Met debut in front of a live worldwide movie-theater audience.

Bellini: La Sonnambula Trailer (2009)

21 March 2009

Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to say nothing of her fiancé—asleep in the bedroom of a stranger.

Tristan und Isolde Trailer (1999)

18 December 1999

Inspired by Wagner’s own tortured affair with the wife of his patron, this searing masterwork is based on Arthurian legend and tells of an illicit romance between a Breton nobleman and the Irish princess betrothed to his uncle and king.

Don Pasquale Trailer (1979)

17 January 1979

This John Dexter production, designed by Desmond Heeley, was a parting gift to the great American soprano Beverly Sills, who bid farewell to the Met as Norina, the smart young widow at the center of Donizetti’s comedy.

Il Trovatore Trailer (1988)

15 October 1988

Luciano Pavarotti brings his spectacular voice and artistry to one of the most famous of all tenor roles—Manrico, the ardent troubadour, trapped in an impossible situation by forces beyond his control.

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.

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.

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.

Die Walküre Trailer (1990)

23 February 1990

The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this second opera in Wagner’s Ring cycle.

The Magic Flute Trailer (2006)

30 December 2006

Tamino, a handsome prince, and Papageno, a bird-catcher, are sent by the Queen of Night to rescue her daughter Pamina from captivity under the high priest Sarastro.

The Met — Tosca Trailer (2009)

10 October 2009

Puccini’s musical thriller of lust, murder, and politics is one of the most dramatically riveting operas in the repertoire.

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.

Puccini: La bohème Trailer (1982)

01 January 1982

"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performed opera at New York's Metropolitan Opera.

La Forza del Destino Trailer (1984)

23 March 1984

Leonora plans to elope with Don Alvaro, but he accidentally shoots and kills her father, who curses them as he dies.

The Metropolitan Opera – Verdi: Macbeth Trailer (2008)

13 April 2008

Verdi’s admiration for Shakespeare led to such masterpieces as Othello and Falstaff, and if the earlier Macbeth isn’t on their exalted level it’s still a powerfully dramatic opera that hews closely to the original’s story line.

The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel Trailer (1982)

01 December 1982

The Metropolitan Opera's performance of "Hansel and Gretel" features music by Engelbert Humperdinck and is conducted by Thomas Fulton.

Tosca Trailer (1978)

27 November 1978

A stellar cast brings Puccini’s spellbinding opera to life, seizing every opportunity to thrill the audience.

Puccini: Manon Lescaut Trailer (1980)

29 March 1980

All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by James Levine and his top-flight cast.

The Ghosts of Versailles Trailer (1992)

10 January 1992

What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One possible sequel is told in John Corigliano’s “grand opera buffa” The Ghosts of Versailles—an uproariously funny and deeply moving work inspired by Beaumarchais’s third Figaro play, La Mère Coupable, and commissioned by the Met to celebrate its 100th anniversary.

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.

Richard Wagner: Parsifal Trailer (1993)

07 April 1993

The Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also produced the fabulous set for the Met's previous Ring cycle.

The Met — Der Rosenkavalier Trailer (2010)

09 January 2010

This production of Strauss’s most sumptuous work by director Nathaniel Merrill and designer Robert O’Hearn is almost as beloved as the opera itself.