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The Best Episodes of Live from Lincoln Center Season 40

Every episode of Live from Lincoln Center Season 40 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Live from Lincoln Center Season 40!

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...
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Season 40 Ratings Summary

"Richard Tucker Opera Gala: A New Century" is the best rated episode of "Live from Lincoln Center" season 40. It scored 8.8/10 based on 130 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/23/2015. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Kern & Hammerstein's Show Boat".

  • Richard Tucker Opera Gala: A New Century
    8.8/10130 votes

    #1 - Richard Tucker Opera Gala: A New Century

    Season 40 Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/2015

    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.

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  • Kern & Hammerstein's Show Boat
    NaN/100 votes

    #2 - Kern & Hammerstein's Show Boat

    Season 40 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/2015

    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.

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  • Act One
    NaN/100 votes

    #3 - Act One

    Season 40 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/2015

    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.

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