Masterclass (TV Series) - Episode Summaries

Episode Summaries

• Episode 1.1 (original air date: April 18, 2010) – Spanish opera star Plácido Domingo works with three young singers focusing not on technique but on how to convey feeling and emotion in their performances.

• Episode 1.2 (original air date: April 25, 2010) – Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann works with a group of young actors on scenes from A Streetcar Named Desire.

• Episode 1.3 (original air date: May 2, 2010) – American playwright Edward Albee, whose works include Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The Zoo Story, and A Delicate Balance, works with four budding playwrights to share his analysis of their work.

• Episode 1.4 (original air date: May 9, 2010) – American ballet dancer and choreographer Jacques d'Amboise helps a group of young dancers to create a dance in five hours and then takes the show to the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.

• Episode 1.5 (original air date: May 16, 2010) – Danish installation artist Olafur Eliasson, whose works include New York City Waterfalls and The Weather Project at London's Tate Modern museum, invites 5 young artists to his studio in Berlin and works with them on an environmental art project.

• Episode 1.6 (original air date: June 9, 2010) – Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, whose buildings include Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, works with aspiring architects on a city-planning project.

• Episode 1.7 (original air date: June 13, 2010) – American dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones, who founded the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and has choreographed for film, Broadway, and opera, works with seven young people (a writer/actress, a choreographer, three dancers and two actors) to create an original work in three days.

• Episode 1.8 (original air date: June 18, 2010) – Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and the New World Symphony Orchestra, works with three young virtuoso musicians.

• Episode 1.9 (original air date: June 27, 2010) – American artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel invites a group of young photographers, painters and sculptors into his studio for a critique of their work and a discussion of how he approaches his own work.

• Episode 2.1 (original air date: May 28, 2012) - American opera singer Renée Fleming works with four young singers, refining their technique and teaching them new methods to improve their voices.