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Season 36
13 :36x01 - La Fille du Régiment (Jun/29/2008)
This production of Donizetti's comedic "Fille du Régiment," features coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay stars as Marie, an orphan adopted by French troops, in an updated setting from the Napoleonic era to World War I.
Guest Stars: Juan Diego Flórez as Tonio, Natalie Dessay as Marie, Felicity Palmer as Marquise of Berkenfield, Alessandro Corbelli as Sgt. Sulpice, Marian Seldes as Duchess of Krakenthorp
 
14 :36x02 - Pavarotti: a Life in Seven Arias (Sep/10/2008)
A special remembrance of opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, through the use of concert footage and interviews with his friends and colleagues, including including tenors José Carreras and Plácido Domingo, plus singers Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé, Renata Scotto and Juan Diego Flórez.
 
15 :36x03 - Carnegie Hall Opening Night: a Celebration of Leonard Bernstein (Oct/29/2008)
Leonard Bernstein's musical legacy is celebrated by conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Fransisco Symphony, opera singers Dawn Upshaw and Thomas Hampson, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Broadway's Christine Ebersole.
 
16 :36x04 - Dance in America: San Fransisco Ballet's Nutcracker (Dec/17/2008)
Kristi Yamaguchi introduces tonight's performance of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, by the San Fransisco Ballet. The production comes to us from the Panama Pacific International Exhibition.
Guest Stars: Yuan Yuan Tan as Snow Queen, Pierre-françois Vilanoba as Snow King, Davit Karapetyan as The Nutcracker Prince, Maria Kochetkova as Clara
 
17 :36x05 - Doctor Atomic (Dec/29/2008)
The John Adams opera Doctor Atomic, is about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's testing of the Atomic bomb in New Mexico back in 1945.
Guest Stars: Sasha Cooke as Kitty Oppenheimer, Gerald Finley as J. Robert Oppenheimer, Eric Owens (2) as Gen. Leslie Groves, Richard Paul Fink as Edward Teller
 
18 :36x06 - From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2009 (Jan/01/2009)
The Vienna Philharmonic, lead by Daniel Barenboim, perform a variety of waltzes, marches and polkas, including Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz, "Thunder and Lightning" polka, and the "Gypsy Baron" overture. Also, Hayden's "Symphony 45, Fourth Movement" Joseph Hellmesberger's "Spanish Dance" and Johann Strauss Sr.'s "Zampa Gallop."
 
19 :36x07 - Cyrano de Bergerac (Jan/07/2009)
From the Richard Rodgers Theater in New york City, Cyrano has unrequited love for a beautiful cousin named Roxanne, but feels unworthy of her because of his enormous nose. Cyrano writes poems for his love and asks his friend Christian to act as his double as he feeds him the lines, to try and win her heart.
Guest Stars: Jennifer Garner as Roxanne, Daniel Sunjata as Christian de Neuvillette, Kevin Kline as Cyrano de Bergerac
 
20 :36x08 - King Lear (Mar/25/2009)
The Royal Shakespeare Company's rendition of King Lear, which features a monarch who makes plans to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, but leads to tragedy.
 
21 :36x09 - Lucia di Lammermoor (Apr/15/2009)
Geatano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor is a tragic opera in which a young woman is forced to marry a nobleman by her brother, despite being in love with another man.
 
22 :36x10 - 'In The Heights': Chasing Broadway Dream (May/27/2009)
A look at the 2008 Tony Award-winning musical "In the Heights,' from pre-production to it's success on Broadway, featuring profiles and performance sequences of Lin-Manuel Miranda, the composer-lyricist and star, along with the rest with the cast.
 
23 :36x11 - Chess: in Concert (Jun/17/2009)
From the Royal Albert Hall in London, the 2008 revival musical "Chess," using melodies from Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA fame, and Tim Rice lyrics, which tells the story of American and Russian chess players and the woman they both love.
 
24 :36x12 - La Cenerentola (Aug/15/2009)
From the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, a performance of Rossini's adaption of "Cinderella," La Cenerentola, stars mezzo-soprano Elina Goranca in the lead role and tenor Lawrence Brownlee as her Prince Charming.
 
25 :36x13 - Harlem in Montmartre (Aug/26/2009)
The story of the jazz age in Paris, as narrated by S. Epatha Merkerson, which began to flourish between WWI and WWII, after some black servicemen remained behind in Europe instead of going back to a segregated America.
 
26 :36x14 - Karajan or As I See It (Aug/31/2009)
Classical music conductor Herbert Von Karajan (1908-1989) is profiled, who for 35 years had led the Berlin Philharmonic, worked with the Vienna Philharmonic and served as artistic director for the Vienna State Opera.
 
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