Great Performances
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
Season 38 Episodes
E1
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conductor Emeritus Pierre Boulez leads the Windy City's internationally renowned orchestra in…
E2
Performed on Sondheim's 80th birthday in March 2010, Great Performances presents the New York Philharmonic's salute to a…
E3
The October 7 opening night concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music Director Gustavo Dudamel featuring renowne…
Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns to host the annual New Year's celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, un…
Anna Netrebko revives her sensational turn in this sophisticated bel canto comedy, opposite Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz K…
Adapted from a play by Alexander Pushkin about the extraordinary reign of the 16th-century tsar, Boris Godunov is regard…
E7
Music “hitman” David Foster returns to Las Vegas with a showstopping show jam packed with special guests including Seal,…
E8
Taped in July of 2010 at New York's Neil Simon Theater, Harry Connick, Jr. in Concert on Broadway features Connick's big…
E9
Shortly before the demolition of New York City's Shea Stadium in July 2008, Billy Joel electrified audiences with two me…
E10
The production is conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin, directed by Nicholas Hytner, and is starring Roberto Alagna, Marina…
E11
The Metropolitan Opera's production of La Fanciulla del West, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the opera's 1910 wo…
E12
Gluck's rarely performed masterpiece, Iphigenie en Tauride, starring Susan Graham, Placido Domingo and Paul Groves. Patr…
E13
On May 5, 2011, Carnegie Hall commemorated its 120th anniversary with a gala concert featuring Alan Gilbert and the New …
E14
The Metropolitan Opera's premiere production of John Adams' Nixon in China, conducted by the composer and staged by inte…
In June 2010, Eric Clapton gathered the world's most talented guitar players at the third Crossroads Guitar Festival. Al…
E16
Jackie is the youngest star in Great Performances' recent Hitman Returns: David Foster & Friends concert, performing vir…
E17
Lucia di Lammermoor, with French soprano Natalie Dessay in one of her greatest roles as Donizetti's fragile heroine.
E18
Directed by Marco Bellocchio, Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto from Mantua stars Placido Domingo as Rigoletto; Julia Novikova …
E19
A trio of bel canto stars--Juan Diego Florez, Diana Damrau, and Joyce DiDonato--headline the Met's first-ever production…
E20
Renee Fleming sings one of her signature roles, the elegant Countess in Richard Strauss's Capriccio. Andrew Davis, who l…
Distinguished conductor Valery Gergiev leads the third annual Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night concert. This year's them…
E22
The great Spanish tenor Placido Domingo looks back on his illustrious career - one which has been bountifully preserved …
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