Charles Anthony Movies

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Plácido Domingo

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Plácido Domingo

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Maria Guleghina

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mirella Freni

James Morris leads an all-star cast including Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, Thomas Allen and René Pape, in this production of Wagner's comic...

Genre: Music

Cast: James Levine

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

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Cast: Louis Quilico

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Louis Quilico

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Luciano Pavarotti

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Luciano Pavarotti

As renowned for its harmonious overture as for its romantic storybook characters, this three-act masterwork features some of the composer’s...

Genre: Music

Cast: Richard Cassilly

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

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Cast: Plácido Domingo

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Jessye Norman

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Peter Hofmann

This evocative production by Giancarlo Del Monaco sumptuously captures the look and feel of 14th century Genoa and is a perfect compliment to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vladimir Chernov

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...

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Cast: Luciano Pavarotti

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

Genre: Music

Cast: James Levine

Giuseppe Verdi's opera of religion, revenge and redemption gets the star treatment in this 1993 Metropolitan Opera production conducted by James...

Genre: Music

Cast: Plácido Domingo