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 51 Episodes
E1
Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy includes soprano Lise Davidsen as the aging Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel L…
E2
Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes his Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the fam…
E3
Captured in peak performance at Madrid’s Teatro Real, New York City Ballet performs two masterpieces choreographed by NY…
E4
Experience five-time Olivier Award nominee Kate Prince’s dance and theater show set to the songs of 17-time Grammy winne…
E5
Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard returns to the Met with an opera based on the true story of box…
E6
Celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, which saved 18 plays from being lost. Tracing the First Fo…
E7
Experience director Simon McBurney’s Met debut with a new production of this Mozart favorite. Nathalie Stutzmann conduct…
E8
Celebrate the New Year with waltzes by Strauss and more performed from Vienna’s Musikverein by the famed orchestra led b…
E9
Experience Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking opera directed by Tony nominee Robert O’Hara. The new staging portrays Malcolm…
E10
Celebrate 20 years at Walt Disney Concert Hall with the LA Phil in a tribute to its architect. Led by Gustavo Dudamel, t…
E11
Honoring one of the most influential, storied and beloved country music icons in history, Great Performances – George Jo…
A three-act comedic stage play tells the fictional story of Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson, a dynamic traveling preac…
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