Charles Anthony

Elijah Moshinsky’s production of Saint-Saëns’s “Samson et Dalila”, recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera 28 September ...

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

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

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

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

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 Knight ...

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 ...

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

Opera royalty Luciano Pavarotti brings dignity and power to the title role in this 1982 production. During a squall at sea, Idomeneo — the ...

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

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