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 39 Episodes
E1
An American favorite for his award-winning role in the hit TV series House, the versatile British actor Hugh Laurie show…
E2
Beloved tenor Andrea Bocelli performs a free concert on Central Park's Great Lawn, with the New York Philharmonic conduc…
John Neumeier -- director and chief choreographer for Hamburg Ballet -- blends dance, dramatic storytelling and spectacl…
E5
Herbie Hancock, Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil Celebrate Gershwin, featuring that classic piece as well as "An American…
E6
Anna Deavere Smith's latest production, Let Me Down Easy. The Great Performances production was recorded in February 201…
E7
The Metropolitan Opera premiere of Donizetti's Anna Bolena, starring soprano Anna Netrebko in her highly anticipated fir…
E8
Tony Bennett: Duets II features the singer's greatest hits, performed by Bennett and today's biggest stars, including Jo…
E9
Broadway's smash hit musical Memphis, winner of four Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book and Best …
E10
Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads his first Met performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni in a new production directed b…
The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater, a celebration of Yiddish theater pioneers Boris …
E12
The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, a fully-staged, lavish 25th anniversary mounting of Andrew Lloyd Webb…
E13
Philip Glass's inspirational opera Satyagraha (Sanskrit for "truth force"), in the first revival of Phelim McDermott and…
E14
San Francisco Symphony's Centennial Season opening night gala, conducted by Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. The tw…
E15
Renee Fleming reprises one of her most popular interpretations: the title role in Handel's Rodelinda, under the baton of…
E16
Three of the opera world’s leading stars—Jonas Kaufmann, Marina Poplavskaya, and René Pape—sing the principal roles in a…
E17
The Enchanted Island is a world premiere work that combines Baroque music with a new, English-language libretto featurin…
E18
Angela Meade, Marcello Giodani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Ferruccio Furlanetto star in Verdi’s Ernani.
E19
Star soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met performances of the title role in Manon, Massenet’s opera about a country…
E20
The concert features the BSO, Boston Pops Orchestra and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, under the direction of conduc…
E21
THIRTEEN’s Great Performances will present 12-year-old classical crossover prodigy Jackie Evancho’s second television sp…
E22
Acclaimed French soprano Natalie Dessay makes her Met role debut as Violetta, the fallen woman who sacrifices her last c…
Under the baton of the dynamic and electric guest maestro, Gustavo Dudamel, the Vienna Philharmonic performs the finale …
E24
Robert Lepage’s acclaimed new production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen.
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