Watch Plácido Domingo crush young dreams with kindness in 30 minutes.
Season 3 • Episode 5
LatestMasterClass is a documentary television series airing on HBO. Each half-hour episode documents the experience of a small group of young artists working with a famous mentor. The series premiered on HBO on April 18, 2010 with opera star Plácido Domingo working with three aspiring young singers. The students in the program are chosen from participants in the Miami-based organization, YoungArts, a program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, which supports emerging artists. The series is produced and directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon of the Simon & Goodman Picture Company. The Executive Producer is Lin Arison. In July 2011 the series was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Program in 2011.
Direction
Simon & Goodman capture vulnerability without exploitation.
Production
HBO polish on a tiny, human-scale premise.
Creators
Kirk Simon, Karen Goodman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon are Oscar-nominated documentarians who specialized in arts education films before this series.
The 2011 Emmy nomination in the Children's category reveals HBO's failed bet that this would attract young viewers—it didn't.
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