Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts world-class performances from the stages of Lincoln Center into homes across America. The pioneering series has sought to democratize the performing arts, making luminaries ranging from Luciano Pavarotti and Beverly Sills to Emma Thompson and Nathan Lane available to hundreds of millions of viewers, collecting 17 Emmy and 2 Peabody Awards.
Where does an actor's dialect come from? Victoria Clark, Sarah Uriarte Berry, Beau Gravitte and Chris Sarandon describe the influences from their own families that informed their characters in Lincoln Center Theater's "The Light in the Piazza".
A real feeling of closeness came to the cast of the hit broadway musical "The Light in the Piazza". From a family on stage, the actors and composer/lyricist Adam Guettel grew to embrace one another as a family in fact.
Katie Clarke graduated from college and walked onto the Broadway stage. She talks about the parallels between her life and the work of playing the part of Clara in Lincoln Center Theater's "The Light in the Piazza".
How does the cast of "The Light in the Piazza" count the ways? Along with composer/lyricist Adam Guettel, they discuss the many paths of love that are explored in the hit Broadway musical.
Lincoln Center Theater's staging effects are one of its strengths. How do you make a hat fly on cue? Find out with this behind-the-scenes look at "The Light in the Piazza".
Playing a character that only speaks italian seems a daunting task if the actor doesn't. The cast of Lincoln Center Theater's "The Light in the Piazza" tell how they parlano italiano and communicate to an English-speaking audience at the same time.
When one of the world's foremost flautists joined Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Lincoln Center's Kaplan Penthouse, he also brought some memories. Sheep, shipyards and shenanigans - Sir James Galway recalls his Belfast boyhood.
Beverly Sills narrates "The Two Bohemes" - composing is such a cutthroat business! Leoncavallo never knew what hit him after Puccini stole his idea - but with Caruso, he had a last laugh anyway!
Beverly Sills narrates "Colline and His Coat" - just what IS a "zimarra"? From the origins of the word to Puccini's own experience pawning HIS coat, we find out why this touching aria is part of the narrative of La Boheme.
Beverly Sills narrates "The Missing Act" - what DID happen to Mimi and Rodolfo after Act II? As it happens, Puccini actually wrote four acts for La Boheme. Why did he drop what started out as Act III?
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