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 46 Episodes
E1
Enjoy an all-star concert honoring Neil Diamond, Tina Turner, Queen, film composer John Williams, New Orleans funk band …
E2
Experience one of the most famous musicals of all time with a celebrated new adaptation featuring the original Tony Awar…
E3
Beloved by generations of audiences worldwide, “The Sound of Music” tells the inspiring true story of the von Trapp Fami…
E4
Go behind-the-scenes of John Leguizamo’s Tony-nominated one-man show, Latin History for Morons, a comic but pointed look…
E5
Take a peek into the legendary career of the pioneering Broadway producer and director and winner of 21 Tony Awards with…
E6
Join Tony Bennett and Diana Krall as they celebrate the American Songbook classics of George and Ira Gershwin, performin…
E7
Experience superstar singer Michael Bublé’s visually thrilling and musically triumphant ‘To Be Loved Tour’ featuring per…
E8
Celebrate the 25th anniversary Ingénue, the critically acclaimed and GRAMMY®-award winning album by superstar singer-son…
E9
In honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, Tanglewood—the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—dedica…
E10
Watch Verdi’s grand opera featuring his most celebrated arias. Starring vocal powerhouses Anna Netrebko in the title rol…
E11
Great Performances continues the cherished tradition of ringing in the new year with the Vienna Philharmonic at the opul…
E12
Celebrate the orchestra’s centennial with a gala concert conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, featuring pianist Lang Lang, an…
E13
Experience Christoph Willibald Gluck’s enduringly popular French-language opera based on the famous Greek myth. From Lyr…
E14
Watch an adaptation of John Patrick Shanley’s hit 2005 Broadway play and the 2008 film about suspicion leading to a batt…
E15
Watch composer Nico Muhly’s reimagining of Winston Graham’s novel about a beautiful, mysterious woman who assumes multip…
E16
The AARP Movies for Grownups multimedia franchise was established in 2002 to celebrate and encourage filmmaking with uni…
E17
Watch Puccini’s blazing love story set in the Wild West, based on David Belasco’s play “The Girl of the Golden West,” st…
E18
Celebrate the world-renowned tenor with a concert spotlighting his popular music and opera repertoire including the duet…
E19
The songs of legendary singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell’s are among the most sublime musical landscapes of human emotion …
E20
Celebrate the life of Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson, the face of opera in the late 1950s-70s. This new documentary show…
E21
Watch Saint-Saëns’s biblical epic based on the tale of Samson and Delilah from the Book of Judges. Starring tenor Robert…
E22
Set in a women’s prison, Great Performances: Julius Caesar offers a powerful dramatization of the catastrophic consequen…
E23
See Michael Mayer’s richly textured production of Verdi’s classic opera, starring soprano Diana Damrau as the tragic her…
E24
Watch Cilea’s classic opera starring Anna Netrebko in the title role of the real-life French actress who dazzled 18th-ce…
E25
Watch Sir Richard Eyre’s production of Bizet’s masterpiece starring Clémentine Margaine reprising her role as opera’s ul…
E26
Watch Donizetti’s romantic comedy about a budding military relationship starring Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena in a f…
E27
Experience a Wagnerian event for the ages starring Christine Goerke as the willful warrior Brünnhilde alongside Stuart S…
E29
Enjoy the world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic’s annual concert from Schönbrunn Palace with guest conductor Gustavo Dudame…
E30
Watch John Dexter’s production of the Poulenc classic about the power of faith, starring Isabel Leonard as Blanche and K…
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