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 and physical productions of TOSCA at Florentine Opera, Anton Coppola’s SACCO AND VANZETTI with Opera Tampa, MANON LESCAUT at Shreveport Opera, THE MERRY WIDOW at Opera on the James, MAN OF LA MANCHA, SWEENEY TODD, LE TRAGÉDIE DE CARMEN, and HANSE
Directors at Encompass Arts
Time flies when you’re enjoying yourself. That popular sentiment occurred to Anthony Laciura as he heard an announcer introduce him as the host for a recent 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. Of course there was more debuts elsewhere: Geneva, Amsterdam, Montreal, Mexico City, Tokyo, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and many summer seasons at Santa Fe.