Enjoying a 25-year career as a stage performer, Dean Anthony has quickly established himself as a Stage Director on the operatic scene with his gritty, energetic, and physical productions of TOSCA at Florentine Opera, Anton Coppola’s SACCO AND VANZETTI with Opera Tampa, RIGOLETTO, CARMEN, AND MARRIAGE OF FIGARO at St. Petersburg Opera, THE MERRY WIDOW and BARBER OF SEVILLE at Opera on the James, MAN OF LA MANCHA, SWEENEY TODD, LA TRAGÉDIE DE CARMEN, and HANSEL AND GRETEL with Augusta Opera. As the Resident Stage Director & Director of Production of Shreveport Opera since 2009, Mr. Anthony directed and produced MAN OF LA MANCHA, LA BOHÈME, TOSCA, MADAMA BUTTERFLY, MANON LESCAUT,
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Anthony Laciura, the HBO star of Boardwalk Empire muses “Time flies when you’re enjoying yourself.” That popular sentiment occurred to Anthony as he heard an announcer introduce him as the host for a Saturday afternoon Metropolitan Opera broadcast. The facts, for the moment, startled him:
860 performances of some 59 roles! “I did all that?” he thought to himself. For the past twenty-five consecutive seasons, yes, he did all that.