She earned a Tony Award nomination for her performance in the 2018 Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel. Winner of four Grammy Awards, she has sung for momentous occasions from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to the Diamond Jubilee Concert for Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. In 2013, President Obama awarded her the National Medal of Arts. It does contain adult themes.īut for anyone wanting to hear gorgeous music, The Light in the Piazza is definitely a must-see.Renée Fleming is one of the most highly-acclaimed singers of our time, performing on the stages of the world’s greatest opera houses and concert halls. I’m not sure this is a show they would respond to. On opening night there were a lot of young people in attendance, no doubt due to Dove Cameron’s popularity as a Disney star. This production also stars Brian Stokes Mitchell ( Ragtime, Kiss Me Kate) as Fabrizio’s father.ĭaniel Evans, so memorable in the Menier Chocolate Factory production of Sunday in the Park with George, directs. The book was made into a film in 1962 with Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux and George Hamilton. The Light in the Piazza is based on Elizabeth Spencer. Margaret, however, is very protective of her daughter (for reasons that are revealed later) and she is steadfast in her opposition to them seeing each other.Īs the saying goes, love conquers everything, even a mother being over-protective. While there, Clara meets Fabrizio (Rob Houchen) and it is love at first sight for both. Renée Fleming (Margaret Johnson) and Dove Cameron (Clara Johnson) star as a mother and daughter on a trip to Florence, Italy in 1953.

Los Angeles Opera has imported a new production of The Light in the Piazza from London and it is now being performed at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion through October 20th. The musical won six Tony Awards including Best Score. If you were to ask me what Broadway musicals have the most romantic scores, there would be one very obvious choice: Adam Guettel’s The Light in the Piazza.

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