Potential Good News for DVD releases of Live from Lincoln Center performances

Posted: 1/19/09 at 3:57am

Found this on a ballet forum. Does this mean we might actually get things like the 1980s Papermill Show Boat, Contact, Light in the Piazza and the NYCO Night Music on DVD?

"the following comes from the 8 page release of about Lincoln Center's 50th Anniversay celebrations:

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[B3TA07]

Posted: 1/19/09 at 5:00am

Ummm.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/19/09 at 5:01am

FIX THY CODE

[B3TA07]

Posted: 1/19/09 at 5:01am

Hahahaha

Posted: 1/19/09 at 5:18am

How embarassing. Sorry guys!

Additional 50th Anniversary Initiatives Live From Lincoln Center May 2009-May 2010 Performances by Leontyne Price, Joan Sutherland, Beverly Sills, and hundreds of other artists who appeared on the country’s only live performing arts series, Live From Lincoln Center, will now be available to the public through a worldwide licensing arrangement with EuroArts/Medici. Over the next decade, these ‘hidden treasures’ from Live From Lincoln Center’s vast programming library, will be offered globally on DVDs, downloads, streaming video, broadcast, and other digital media. The nationally televised series in 2009-2010 will change its name to Live From “the 50th Anniversary of” Lincoln Center to highlight the anniversary.

[thtrbear]

Posted: 1/19/09 at 7:05am

Murphy's Law says it will only be for broadcasts I'm not very interested in, like classical music and opera.

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 1/19/09 at 10:14am

Eric, do you have an actual link so we can see the source for this? Just copy and paste the url.

Thanks!

Posted: 2/3/09 at 7:37am

Surely some of the Broadway related stuff will make it

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 2/3/09 at 12:44pm

I would love Contact and the NYCO productions of Night Music and Candide.

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 2/3/09 at 2:11pm

Here is the source, directly from Lincoln Center:

http://www.lincolncenter.org/press_release/LC50th_PR_FINAL_11-12-08_FORWEB.pdf

It can be found on page 4.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/3/09 at 4:09pm

"To celebrate Lincoln Center’s rich history over the last half century, performances by Leontyne Price, Joan Sutherland, Beverly Sills and other artists who appeared on the country’s only live performing arts series, Live From Lincoln Center, will now be available to the public through a worldwide licensing arrangement with EuroArts/Medici. Over the next decade, these hidden treasures from Live From Lincoln Center’s vast programming library will be offered globally on DVDs, downloads, streaming video, broadcast and other digital media."

I sort of get the feeling that they will only release operas since they don't mention any theater performers. Possibly only operas where they don't have to pay royalties to a composer's estate?

[TheatreFreak05]

Posted: 2/3/09 at 8:49pm

^^^I hope that's not true. I would love it if they released a couple of them on DVD!

Posted: 2/3/09 at 9:25pm

I dunno, I think they just felt the opera names were bigger. There's some great ballet/dance pieces I'd love to see--and for Broadway I can think of Contact, NYCo's Night Music, Light in the Piazza of course and some older stuff (the so/so Papermill Showboat?) that I'd love to see

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 2/4/09 at 12:41am

Well, the Paper Mill Show Boat wasn't Live From Lincoln Center so this wouldn't make an issue of that (or the Paper Mill Crazy From You) viable.

Other theatre-related possibilities for issue would include the NYCO productions of Candide and Street Scene, and the Flying Karamazov Brothers in The Comedy of Errors. And perhaps City Ballet doing the West Side Story suite and Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. The LCT House of Blue Leaves was American Playhouse so it wouldn't be affected by this agreement.

There was a fabulous NYCO Marriage of Figaro that I'd love to see issued.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 2/4/09 at 12:46am

I would love for the operas to be released! I'm always looking for good Le nozze productions on DVD.

I think operas are easier to get by with taping, which is why you can find virtually any of them filmed.

Posted: 2/4/09 at 2:39am

West Side Story Suite wasn't filmed for Live from Lincoln Center... was it? I was pretty sure in my research of the ballet suite of the piece it wasn't.

Thanks--I didn't realize the Papermill Showboat wasn't live. And I forgot about that House of the Blue Leaves--shame we won't get it as I'd love to see it.

Was Crazy for You part of American Playhouse too?

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 2/4/09 at 3:44am

I think I was wrong about the WSS suite. I don't know why I thought it had been telecast, but I'm not finding anything online about it having been shown so I'm guessing it was just my imagination. And this explains why I didn't record it.

Eric, it's not just that the Show Boat wasn't live. It wasn't Lincoln Center.

Crazy for You was on Great Performances. I think the Show Boat was too.

SporkGoddess, there are plenty of operas on DVD, of course, but so far I think none of the NYCO telecasts have been commercially issued because they've all been on Live From Lincoln Center. Well, maybe some have been on Great Performances, I'm not sure. But I think none has been issued.

Posted: 2/4/09 at 5:13am

Oh re Show Boat I just assumed most major 80s PBS airings that weren't Lincoln Center Live got releases in some format (Sunday int he Park etc). But i'm sure there are many exceptions.

And yeah too bad about WSS suite--I'd love to see it (though I am seeing Pacific Ballet in Seattle do their Broadway program in a few months which include it and Slaughter)

[phantom39]

Posted: 12/28/16 at 5:02pm

It sure took them time..

Now with the release of 'Carousel' on DVD... can we expect more of this?

http://amzn.to/2hpL0YN

Updated On: 12/28/16 at 05:02 PM

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 12/28/16 at 5:17pm

I hope they fix Shuler's last name for the actual release. 

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 12/29/16 at 1:47am

I was at that filming of Carousel. I had decided to try a seat in a box in a left tier. All of us in the box were surprised to find that the show was staged so far to our side that we could see almost nothing. Could not see a single plank in the bench.

On a follow-up call, the customer service rep apologized and told me that they had made a mistake in staging the show that far to the side.

And then I missed the show on the day it was broadcast on PBS.

So now I may finally be able to see what I missed.