Craig Montgomery

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The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Madama Butterfly 2016 (9)

Anthony Minghella’s beautiful, atmospheric production enhances Puccini’s drama of unfortunate, doomed love. Soprano Kristine Opolais brings all of her passionate commitment to her portrayal of Cio-Cio-San, the teenage geisha who gives up everything for Lt. Pinkerton. Roberto Alagna is the American naval officer who does not understand the depth of Cio-Cio-San’s love, and whose subsequent marriage to an American woman precipitates Butterfly’s suicide. Maria Zifchak is Suzuki, Cio-Cio-San’s faithful servant, and Dwayne Croft plays the American consul Sharpless, who tries to avert the tragedy. Karel Mark Chichon conducts.
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Massenet: Thaïs 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. And when the clash takes place in a glorious, but rarely performed, opera by Massenet, it’s a delight to the ear just as much as to the eye. Renée Fleming is every inch the glamorous Thaïs, swathed in elegant gowns designed by Christian Lacroix. Thomas Hampson is Athanaël, the tortured man of God. This production by John Cox, which premiered in December 2008, brilliantly sets the stage for a confrontation as old as civilization itself.
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The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly 2019

Ever since it opened the 2006–07 season, Anthony Minghella’s striking production of Madama Butterfly has been a Met classic. Drawing inspiration from traditional Japanese theater, Minghella’s staging retells this heartbreaking tale with brilliant stagecraft, bold colors, and bunraku puppetry. In this Live in HD performance from the fall of 2019, Chinese soprano Hui He stars as Cio-Cio-San, the young geisha who puts her trust in a visiting American naval officer, only to later be abandoned by him. In a feat of operatic heroics, tenor Bruce Sledge appears as the callous Pinkterton, stepping into the role on short notice to replace an ailing colleague. Pier Giorgio Morandi conducts one of opera’s most tragic masterpieces, leading a cast that also includes mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong as Cio-Cio-San’s loyal companion, Suzuki, and Tony Award–winning baritone Paulo Szot as the U.S. consul Sharpless.
Craig Montgomery

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Nirvana - Live on Leeds Polytechnic, UK, 1990 1990

October 25, 1990 - Students' Union, Leeds Polytechnic, Leeds, UK 00:00:00 - Blew 00:03:59 - Been A Son 00:06:10 - Negative Creep 00:09:08 - Stain 00:11:34 - Lithium 00:15:52 - Spank Thru 00:18:57 - Breed 00:22:33 - Floyd The Barber 00:25:10 - Big Cheese 00:29:05 - About A Girl 00:31:57 - In Bloom 00:36:19 - Scoff 00:40:13 - Molly's Lips 00:43:50 - Love Buzz 00:48:02 - D-7 00:51:26 - Dive 00:55:06 - Sliver 00:57:11 - School
David Craig Montgomery

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Dancing Boxing Match, Montgomery and Stone 1907 (3.8)

Two men box in a comedic manner, with the film opening as one man in a cap punches the other and then ducks behind him.