Live from Lincoln Center
Since premiering in 1976, the landmark series has sought to democratize the world of the performing arts by making Lincoln Center's historic concerts and events available for public broadcast across the country. And it continues to push the boundaries, both technical and creative, of what is possible in the realm of stage performance capture.
Seasons
1. New York Philharmonic with André Previn and Van Cliburn
Air Date: 1976-01-30
Berlioz, "Beatrice and Benedict" Overture; Grieg, Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16; INTERMISSION; R. Strauss, "Ein Heldenleben". Live intermission interview backstage with Previn.
6. An Evening with Danny Kaye and the New York Philharmonic
Air Date: 1981-09-23
A night of classical music,conducted by famous comedian actor Danny Kaye,is something for the whole family to watch. Danny puts his talents to use while conducting and makes it very special for people of all ages.
1. Stephen Sondheim, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Air Date: 1990-11-07
Performed by the New York City Opera (in 2 acts, book by Hugh Wheeler, orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick). Pretaped interview with Stephen Sondheim; live intermission interviews backstage with Christopher Keene (Artistic Director of New York City Opera), Howes/Resnick. Sally Ann Howes (Désirée Armfeldt) Regina Resnik (Madame Armfeldt) Beverly Lambert (Anne Egerman) Maureen Moore (Countess Malcolm) Susan Terry (Petra) Danielle Ferland (Frederika Armfeldt) George Lee Andrews (Fredrik Egerman) Kevin Anderson (Henrik Egerman) Michael Maguire (Count Malcolm)
1. American Songbook - PASSION
Air Date: 2005-03-31
A concert production of Stephen Sondheim's musical starring Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris, and directed by Lonny Price. Following the performance, Lesley Stahl talks with Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald and Michael Cerveris. Allen Fitzpatrick (Colonel Ricci) Richard Easton (Dr. Tambourri) Alexander Gemignani (Lt. Torasso) Timothy Gulan (Sgt. Lombardi) Devin Richards (Lt. Barri) James Clow (Major Rizzolli) John Sloman (Lt. Augenti) Gina Ferrall (Fosca's Mother) John Cunningham (Fosca's Father) George Dvorsky (Ludovic) Kate Baldwin (Mistress) Trey Compton, Jono Hustis (Male Attendants) Jenn Dottino, Abby Stevens (Female Attendants) Joshua Johnston (Mail Boy)
1. New York Philharmonic Opening Night Gala With Sir James Galway
Air Date: 2008-09-17
2. New York Philharmonic New Year's Eve Gala Concert
Air Date: 2008-12-31
3. New York Cities Ballet's 'Romeo & Juliet'
Air Date: 2009-05-21
4. The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma
Air Date: 2009-06-09
1. Mostly Mozart Festival 2006
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2. The Light in the Piazza
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1. Joshua Bell With Friends @ The Penthouse
Air Date: 2010-01-21
The Season 35 opener features violinist Joshua Bell teaming with Sting ("Come Again"); Kristin Chenoweth ("My Funny Valentine"); Chris Botti ("I Loves You Porgy"); Nathan Gunn ("O, Cease Thy Singing, Maiden Fair"); Marvin Hamlisch ("I'll Take Manhattan"); Frankie Moreno ("Eleanor Rigby"); Regina Spektor ("Left Hand Song"); and Cuban music group Tiempo Libre ("Para Tí"). Also, thanks to technology, Bell "duets" with Russian pianist Sergey Rachmaninoff on Grieg's Violin Sonata No. 3, Movement II.
2. Ax, Perlman and Ma
Air Date: 2010-05-05
Pianist Emanuel Ax, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinist Itzhak Perlman perform Mendelssohn's Piano Trios and other selections at the Lincoln Center's Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse. Alan Alda hosts.
3. South Pacific
Air Date: 2010-08-18
The Lincoln Center Theater's Tony Award-winning production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific," about love in the South Pacific during WWII. Kelli O'Hara stars as a Navy nurse whose love for a French plantation owner (Paulo Szot) is tested by her own prejudice. Songs include "Some Enchanted Evening," "There Is Nothin' Like a Dame," "A Wonderful Guy" and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair."
4. New York Philharmonic: Opening Night Concert 2010
Air Date: 2010-09-23
The opening-night gala for the New York Philharmonic features music director Alan Gilbert conducting the U.S. premiere of Wynton Marsalis' "Jazz Symphony."
5. Baroque Holiday With the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Air Date: 2010-12-19
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center perform Bach's Double Concerto and Corelli's Christmas Concerto; and is joined by recorder virtuosa Michala Petri for works by Sammartini, Tartini and Vivaldi.
6. New York Philharmonic New Year's Eve With Lang Lang
Air Date: 2010-12-31
The New York Philharmonic, under the baton of maestro Alan Gilbert, perform Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with pianist Lang Lang; and the second act of "The Nutcracker."
1. Beethoven and Brahms With the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Air Date: 2011-02-13
2. Mostly Mozart Festival Opening Night
Air Date: 2011-08-02
Louis Langrée and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra are joined by violinist Christian Tetzlaff and violist Antoine Tamestit for Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major for Violin and Viola; and soprano Susanna Phillips for Mozart's "Crudele?...Non mi dir, bell'idol mio" from "Don Giovanni" and "Bella mia fiamma...Resta, o cara."
3. New York Philharmonic Opening Night With Deborah Voigt
Air Date: 2011-09-21
4. Wynton at 50
Air Date: 2011-10-13
5. New York City Ballet George Balanchine's The Nutcracker
Air Date: 2011-12-14
6. Bernstein and Gershwin
Air Date: 2011-12-31
1. Renée Fleming @ the Penthouse
Air Date: 2012-04-06
2. The Philharmonic Opening Gala With Itzhak Perlman
Air Date: 2012-09-27
3. The Richard Tucker Opera Gala
Air Date: 2012-12-13
4. One Singular Sensation: Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch
Air Date: 2012-12-31
1. Ring Them Bells! A Kander & Ebb Celebration
Air Date: 2013-02-15
2. Kristin Chenoweth: The Dames of Broadway...All of 'Em!!!
Air Date: 2013-03-24
3. Josh Groban: All That Echoes
Air Date: 2013-04-12
4. Celebration: Stephanie Blythe Meets Kate Smith
Air Date: 2013-04-19
5. Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel
Air Date: 2013-04-26
6. Audra McDonald in Concert: Go Back Home
Air Date: 2013-05-24
7. The New York Philharmonic Gala With Yo-Yo Ma
Air Date: 2013-12-31
The New York Philharmonic's opening gala concert features special guest cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
1. Richard Tucker at 100: An Opera Celebration
Air Date: 2014-01-10
This year’s Richard Tucker Foundation Gala — a perennial highlight of the opera season — celebrates Richard Tucker’s centennial with performances by many of the world’s greatest voices and a salute to this year’s award winner, Isabel Leonard.
2. Patina Miller in Concert
Air Date: 2014-03-28
She received rave reviews – and a Tony Award – for her performance in Broadway’s revival of "Pippin." Soon she’ll be featured in the next installment of “The Hunger Games.” Tonight you’ll hear how she got from Pageland, South Carolina, to a starring role on Broadway, told in songs ranging from Sondheim to "Sister Act."
3. James Naughton: The Songs of Randy Newman
Air Date: 2014-04-04
James Naughton has played his fair share of scoundrels, lotharios and would-be legends. Tonight, he takes on the work of Randy Newman, who specializes in just those sorts of characters. Naughton serves up all of Newman’s sardonic wit, but don’t be surprised if this two-time Tony Award winner also gets you rooting for these characters.
4. Jason Isbell: Moving Forward
Air Date: 2014-04-11
Hailing from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, one of the meccas of American music, Jason Isbell is creating a sound that expands on his roots and cuts close to the bone. His songs are drawn from his own past and the stories of others he’s encountered. But they also speak of “moving forward” and of the possibility of redemption – qualities you suspect he knows something about.
5. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Air Date: 2014-09-26
The New York Philharmonic’s acclaimed production of Stephen Sondheim’s iconic musical thriller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, staged in March 2014 to a sold-out crowd at Avery Fisher Hall, tells the story of a barber who, with his romantically inclined landlady, Mrs. Lovett the piemaker, seeks vengeance on what he considers a merciless world. The remarkable cast features bass-baritone Bryn Terfel in the title role and Academy Award-winning actress Emma Thompson as Mrs. Lovett, with Christian Borle and many more. Multi-Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald hosts.
6. The Nance
Air Date: 2014-10-10
Nathan Lane gives the performance of a lifetime as Chauncey Miles, who faces a changing world and his own self-loathing in 1930s New York.
1. Richard Tucker Opera Gala: A New Century
Air Date: 2015-01-23
This year’s Richard Tucker Music Foundation’s annual gala concert features performances by opera’s brightest lights and rising stars, including Joseph Calleja, Angela Meade, Željko Lučić, Ildar Abdrazakov, Pretty Yende, as well as the 2014 Richard Tucker Award winner Michael Fabiano in solo and ensemble selections from works by Puccini, Mozart, Bellini, Massenet, Donizetti, Verdi and Bernstein, conducted by Maestro Emmanuel Villaume with the New York Choral Society.
5. Kern & Hammerstein's Show Boat
Air Date: 2015-10-16
The landmark musical brought vividly to life by the New York Philharmonic, with an all-star cast led by Vanessa Williams, Julian Ovenden, Lauren Worsham, Norm Lewis, Jane Alexander and Fred Willard.
7. Act One
Air Date: 2015-11-13
Few have captured the magic of the theater better than Moss Hart, a poor kid from the Bronx who went on to become a lion of Broadway. Now another lion of the theater, James Lapine, reinvents Hart's memoir for the stage, creating a world as vivid and transformative as the stage itself. The first-rate cast, led by Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin, anchors the play's magic in real human emotion.
1. From Bocelli to Barton: Richard Tucker Opera Gala
Air Date: 2016-02-05
This year, Renée Fleming and 2015 Richard Tucker Award winner Jamie Barton are joined by Andrea Bocelli, Lawrence Brownlee and other great voices for one of the perennial highlights of the opera season.
3. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Air Date: 2016-11-04
The legendary dance company returns to PBS with four works reflecting its spectacular range, diversity and artistry, culminating in a performance of "Revelations," the dance masterpiece created by company founder Alvin Ailey.
1. 50 Years of Mostly Mozart
Air Date: 2017-02-03
Signature performances of Mozart's first and last symphonies by the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, led by music director Louis Langrée, and an early piano concerto performed by Richard Goode, anchor a program that reminds us that the legacy of Mozart is alive and well.
2. Falsettos
Air Date: 2017-10-27
Nominated for five 2017 Tony® Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical, this razor-sharp portrait of family dynamics revolves around the life of a gay man, his wife, his lover, his disaffected son, their psychiatrist, and the lesbians next door. Starring Christian Borle, Stephanie J. Block and Andrew Rannells, Falsettos offers a hilarious, ultimately heartbreaking look at a turbulent time.
3. New York Philharmonic New Year's Eve: Bernstein on Broadway
Air Date: 2017-12-31
The New York Philharmonic celebrates the centennial of the late Leonard Bernstein, its fabled Musical Director from 1958 to 1969. Led by Bramwell Tovey, with special guests Annaleigh Ashford, Christopher Jackson, Laura Osnes and Aaron Tveit, this loving tribute promises to become a classical music moment to remember.
1. Sutton Foster in Concert
Air Date: 2018-04-20
Two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster brings her irresistible talent and effusive charm to the intimate Appel Room for a special night with a special guest, two-time Tony nominee Jonathan Groff ("Hamilton," "Spring Awakening," "Glee").
2. Leslie Odom Jr. in Concert
Air Date: 2018-04-27
Leslie Odom Jr., who won the 2016 Tony for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his performance as Aaron Burr in "Hamilton," performs.
3. Stephanie J. Block in Concert
Air Date: 2018-05-04
Stephanie J. Block, who was featured in Lincoln Center Theater's "Falsettos" as well as in "Wicked" and "The Boy From Oz," performs.
4. Andrew Rannells in Concert
Air Date: 2018-05-11
Andrew Rannells brings his signature blend of vocal prowess and wry wit to a sparkling set of songs.
5. New York Philharmonic New Year's Eve With Renée Fleming
Air Date: 2018-12-31
A New Year’s Eve tradition continues with the New York Philharmonic, led by music director Jaap van Zweden, welcoming Renée Fleming for a festive evening of music. From Johann Strauss II to musical pearls from Stephen Sondheim and film composer Alexandre Desplat, Fleming and the Philharmonic conjure the elegance and sparkle of a night at the Ball. Kelli O’Hara hosts.
1. Pipeline
Air Date: 2019-02-08
Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away?
2. Cynthia Erivo in Concert
Air Date: 2019-05-10
Enjoy a soulful evening of song from one of Broadway’s brightest stars. Seamlessly making the transition from the stage to the big screen, British-born Cynthia Erivo won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in The Color Purple before starring in several films, including Steve McQueen’s Widows.
3. Annaleigh Ashford in Concert
Air Date: 2019-05-17
A new concert from stage and screen star Annaleigh Ashford, who thrilled audiences in Sunday in the Park with George (opposite Jake Gyllenhaal), Kinky Boots, and You Can’t Take It With You, for which she won a Tony Award.
4. Megan Hilty in Concert
Air Date: 2019-05-24
Megan Hilty, who's starred in "Wicked," "9 to 5: The Musical," "Noises Off" and NBC's "Smash," performs musical-theater favorites and classic standards.
5. Odyssey Chamber Music Society in Greece
Air Date: 2019-09-06
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center journeys to this remarkable land, performing works embodying the essence of classical music in iconic settings like the ancient theatre of Larissa and the historic Church of the Taxiarchon in Pelion – culminating in a mighty version of Mendelssohn’s Octet.
6. New York Philharmonic: Celebrating Sondheim
Air Date: 2019-12-31
Ring in the New Year with the New York Philharmonic performing Stephen Sondheim's most beloved works. Featuring Tony Award–winning stage and screen actress / vocalist Katrina Lenk — who will star in the gender-blind Broadway revival of Sondheim’s "Company" in 2020 — in her New York Philharmonic debut. The concert is conducted by Alexander Gemignani, also in his Philharmonic debut; and directed by Lonny Price. Includes selections and suites from "A Little Night Music," "Assassins," "Company," "Into the Woods," "Sunday in the Park with George," and "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
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Rating
8.5/10
Release Date
1976-01-30
Episodes
58 (44 seasons)
Status
Returning Series
Cast
Production Companies
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts