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 42 Episodes
E1
John Lithgow hosts a two-hour event with Grammy-, Emmy- and Tony-winning performers, along with co-host Jordin Sparks on…
E2
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE! – featuring an evening of classic jazz standards in both vocal duets and …
E3
This special encore presentation of the original 1998 broadcast of "Cats" on Great Performances. Let the "Memory" live a…
E4
Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the sixth time to host the festive annual New Year’s celebration with …
E5
World-renowned American opera singer Renée Fleming convenes a festival of special guests to celebrate the diverse range …
E6
The season nine premiere of Great Performances at the Met is Mozart’s elegant masterpiece of marital discord, Le Nozze d…
E7
Director Rupert Goold's gripping stage production of Macbeth, set in a nameless 20th-century militaristic society and st…
E8
Acclaimed director Richard Eyre’s production of Carmen stars Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili in the title ro…
E9
Conducted by Alan Gilbert, selections include music by Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Luis Bacalov, performed by the New Yo…
E10
Canadian born singer-songwriter Bryan Adams has been one of the most successful international performers in contemporary…
E11
Rossini’s classic comedy Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) features some of the most instantly recognizabl…
E12
Choreographer Mark Morris’s signature work comes to television for the first time, hosted by Mikhail Baryshnikov. Morris…
E13
The concert of her Grammy-nominated album features Lennox’s takes on iconic American compositions by such artists as Hoa…
E14
James Levine leads Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (“The Master-Singer of Nuremberg”) in its first Great Perform…
E15
Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo stars as the tortured poet unlucky in love in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann on Great …
E16
The start of BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons’ tenure with the orchestra features two of the conductor’s close colleagu…
E17
The lavish new staging of Lehár’s effervescent operetta The Merry Widow is the Met debut of Broadway director and choreo…
Polish film director Mariusz Treliński makes his Met debut with the new production, inspired by noir films of the 1940s.…
E19
Alfred Uhry’s classic play is a searing, funny, and hopeful meditation on race relations in America, told through the co…
E20
Natalie Portman hosts Dudamel Conducts a John Williams Celebration with the LA Phil on Great Performances. Itzhak Perlma…
E21
Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez headline Rossini’s bel canto tour-de-force "La Donna del Lago" on Great Performance…
E22
Led by guest conductor Zubin Mehta, the world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic returns for its 12th open-air summer concert,…
Sir David McVicar directs the first new Met production of the popular verismo double bill in 45 years: Cavalleria Rustic…
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