Great Performances (1971)
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.
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1. Great Performances at the Met: Der Rosenkavalier2023-09-10Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy includes soprano Lise Davidsen as the aging Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover Octavian and soprano Erin Morley as Soph
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2. Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni2023-10-01Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes his Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectu
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3. New York City Ballet in Madrid2023-10-27 · 1h 25mCaptured in peak performance at Madrid’s Teatro Real, New York City Ballet performs two masterpieces choreographed by NYCB co-founder and original Artistic Director George Balanchi
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4. Message In A Bottle2023-11-03 · 1h 26mExperience five-time Olivier Award nominee Kate Prince’s dance and theater show set to the songs of 17-time Grammy winner Sting. Telling the story of a migrant family, the show fro
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5. Great Performances at the Met: Champion2023-11-05Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard returns to the Met with an opera based on the true story of boxer Emile Griffith, who rose from obscurity to become a world
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6. Making Shakespeare: The First Folio2023-11-17 · 1h 54mCelebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, which saved 18 plays from being lost. Tracing the First Folio’s story, the film also spotlights how New York City’s Pu
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7. Great Performances at the Met: Die Zauberflöte2023-12-10Experience director Simon McBurney’s Met debut with a new production of this Mozart favorite. Nathalie Stutzmann conducts with Lawrence Brownlee as Tamino, Erin Morley as Pamina, T
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8. From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 20242024-01-01Celebrate the New Year with waltzes by Strauss and more performed from Vienna’s Musikverein by the famed orchestra led by guest conductor Christian Thielemann. PBS favorite Hugh Bo
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9. Great Performances at the Met: The Life and Times of Malcolm X2024-02-04Experience Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking opera directed by Tony nominee Robert O’Hara. The new staging portrays Malcolm as an Everyman whose story transcends time and space. Suppo
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10. The LA Phil Celebrates Frank Gehry2024-02-16 · 1h 25mCelebrate 20 years at Walt Disney Concert Hall with the LA Phil in a tribute to its architect. Led by Gustavo Dudamel, the concert includes a piece composed and conducted by Esa-Pe
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11. George Jones: Still Playin’ Possum2024-02-23 · 1h 25mHonoring one of the most influential, storied and beloved country music icons in history, Great Performances – George Jones: Still Playin’ Possum is an all-star celebration. Jones’
- 12 12. Great Performances at the Met: Dead Man Walking2024-03-15
- 13 13. Great Performances at the Met: Florencia en el Amazonas2024-04-07
- 14 14. Now Hear This2024-04-12
- 15 15. Now Hear This2024-04-19
- 16 16. Now Hear This2024-04-26
- 17 17. Now Hear This2024-05-03
- 18 18. Great Performances at the Met: Nabucco2024-05-05
- 19 19. Hamlet2024-05-10 · 2h 34m
- 20 20. Audra McDonald at the London Palladium2024-05-17 · 1h 23m
- 21 21. Purlie Victorious2024-05-24 · 1h 46mA three-act comedic stage play tells the fictional story of Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson, a dynamic traveling preacher returning to his hometown in rural Georgia, to save his
- 22 22. Rodgers & Hammerstein's 80th Anniversary2024-05-31 · 1h 56m
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