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Original Release
01/30/1976 on PBS
US Release
01/30/1976
Links
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Beverly Sills | Self - Hostess / Self / Self - Performer / Rosina / Manon Lescaut / Donna Fiorilla |
| Audra McDonald | Self - Host / Self - Performer / Self / Clara / Beggar Woman |
| Louis Perry | Company / Tobacco Vendor / Slave #1 / Registrar / Parpignol / Giuseppi / German Lumberjack / Chorus / Bellboy / Ambulance Driver |
| Zubin Mehta | Self - Conductor / Conductor / Self / Self (conductor) |
| Martin Bookspan | Offscreen announcer / Self - Commentator / Self - Announcer / Offscreen announcer (1976-2006) / Host / Announcer |
| Renée Fleming | Self / Self - Vocalist / Self - Host / Self - Performer |
| Itzhak Perlman | Self - Violinist / Self / Self - performer |
| Alan Gilbert | Self - conductor / Self / Self (conductor) / Self - Condutor |
| Hugh Downs | Self - Host / Self - Announcer |
| Fred Child | Self - Announcer / Self - Commentator / Self |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | American Songbook: André De Shields | Wednesday, 29 January 2020 |
| 2 | American Songbook: Stephanie Blythe is Blythely Oratonio | Thursday, 30 January 2020 |
| 3 | American Songbook: Cowboy Junkies | Friday, 31 January 2020 |
| 4 | American Songbook: Joe Iconis and Family | Saturday, 01 February 2020 |
Directors
Alan Skog, Kirk Browning, Lonny Price, Andrew Carl Wilk, Annette Jolles, Matthew Diamond, Habib Azar, James Lapine, Robert Scheerer, Mark Lamos, Howard Heller, Tazewell Thompson, Richard Jay-Alexander, Rhoda Levine, Jim Fagan, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Tristan Cook, Brad Fuss, Glenn Weiss, Dana Calderwood, Alex Coletti, Wendy Keys, Peter Rosen, Charles Randolph-Wright, Ted Sperling, Bartlett Sher
Writers
Hugh Wheeler, James Lapine, Henri Meilhac, Lonny Price, Danny Abelson, Elon Rutberg, Christopher Bond, William Finn, Oscar Hammerstein II, Elizabeth Spencer, Michael Mitnick, Sara Lukinson, Richard Plant, Tony Clark, Andrew Porter, T.H. White, Chad Beguelin, Dominique Morrisseau, Marius Petipa, Giuseppe Adami, Ludovic Halévy, Prosper Mérimée, William Shakespeare, Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa, W.H. Auden, James A. Michener, Alexandre Dumas, Alan Jay Lerner, Moss Hart, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gian Carlo Menotti, Ferenc Molnár, Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward, Felice Romani, Elmer Rice, Cesare Sterbini, Craig Lucas, Ingmar Bergman, Ettore Scola, Joshua Logan, Heinz Reichert, Leos Janácek, Voltaire, Abbé Prévost, Philippe Gille, A.M. Willner, Douglas Carter Beane, John La Touche, Kenward Elmslie
Creators
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Beverly Sills | Self - Hostess / Self / Self - Performer / Rosina / Manon Lescaut / Donna Fiorilla |
| Audra McDonald | Self - Host / Self - Performer / Self / Clara / Beggar Woman |
| Louis Perry | Company / Tobacco Vendor / Slave #1 / Registrar / Parpignol / Giuseppi / German Lumberjack / Chorus / Bellboy / Ambulance Driver |
| Zubin Mehta | Self - Conductor / Conductor / Self / Self (conductor) |
| Martin Bookspan | Offscreen announcer / Self - Commentator / Self - Announcer / Offscreen announcer (1976-2006) / Host / Announcer |
| Renée Fleming | Self / Self - Vocalist / Self - Host / Self - Performer |
| Itzhak Perlman | Self - Violinist / Self / Self - performer |
| Alan Gilbert | Self - conductor / Self / Self (conductor) / Self - Condutor |
| Hugh Downs | Self - Host / Self - Announcer |
| Fred Child | Self - Announcer / Self - Commentator / Self |
| Lorin Maazel | Conductor / Self (conductor) / Self - Conductor |
| Natalia Makarova | Self / Self - 'The Sleeping Beauty, Act III' / Odile / Odette / Self (in interview) / Nikiya / Kitri - 'Don Quixote Pas de Deux' / Giselle |
| Joshua Bell | Self / Self - Violinist |
| Susanne Marsee | Zaida / Mrs. Sergstrom / Marcellina / Maddalena / Cinderella |
| Louis Langree | Self - Conductor |
| Lang Lang | Self / Self (pianist) / Pianist |
| Marianna Tcherkassky | Self - Act I Pas de Deux from 'La Fille Mas Gardee' / Nikiya / 'Les Sylphides' / Self |
| Don Yule | Sergeant / James Henry / Jailer / Ben Benny / Antonio |
| Luciano Pavarotti | Self / Self - Tenor / Self - Performer |
| New York Philharmonic | Themselves - Orchestra / Themselves / Self - Orchestra |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
Editors
Stephanie Kaznocha, Nick Palm, Derek Nguyen, Laure Sullivan, Oriana Syed, Gary Bradley, Rachel Reichman, Rebecca Sherwood, Craig Friedman, James Garland, Paul Ewen, Matty Powers, Frank Cernese, Donald P. Finamore
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 2017 | Emmy | Outstanding Music Direction | Nominated |
| 2016 | Emmy | Outstanding Music Direction | Won |
| 2016 | Emmy | Outstanding Music Direction | Nominated |
| 2016 | Emmy | Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety Series or Special | Won |
| 2015 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie | Nominated |
| 2015 | Emmy | Outstanding Special Class Program | Won |
| 2015 | Emmy | Outstanding Music Direction | Nominated |
| 2013 | Emmy | Outstanding Choreography | Nominated |
| 2013 | Emmy | Outstanding Music Direction | Nominated |
| 2013 | Emmy | Outstanding Special Class Programs | Nominated |
| 2012 | Emmy | Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special | Nominated |
| 2008 | Emmy | Outstanding Special Class - Classical Music/Dance Programs | Won |
| 2006 | Emmy | Outstanding Special Class Program | Nominated |
| 2006 | Emmy | Outstanding Special Class Program | Nominated |
| 2005 | Emmy | Outstanding Special Class Program | Won |
| 2005 | Emmy | Outstanding Special Class Program | Nominated |
| 2004 | Emmy | Outstanding Special Class Program | Won |
| 2004 | Emmy | Outstanding Special Class Program | Nominated |
| 2003 | Emmy | Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program | Won |
| 2003 | Emmy | Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program | Nominated |
