Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Broadway star Kelli O’Hara makes her Met Opera debut as the Baron’s coquettish wife Valencienne in Lehár’s effervescent operetta The Merry Widow. O’Hara and the women’…
SOURCE: PBS at 03:45PMSaturday, June 13, 2015
Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, starring soprano Anna Netrebko, shares a double bill with Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, starring Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko. Acclaimed Polish film direct…
SOURCE: PBS at 11:17AMWednesday, June 10, 2015
Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy, a 2010 hit on Broadway, comes to television with five-time Tony Award winner and three-time Academy Award® nominee Angela La…
SOURCE: PBS at 09:10PMTuesday, May 5, 2015
Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo stars as the tortured poet unlucky in love in Offenbach’s opera. Here he sings a duet with English mezzo-soprano Christine Rice, who plays the Venetian court…
SOURCE: PBS at 05:32PMWednesday, April 29, 2015
On the 23rd anniversary of the LA riots, Great Performances presents a special encore of Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, a riveting theatrical account of the 1992 riots from mu…
SOURCE: PBS at 07:29PMMonday, April 27, 2015
In her role debut, American soprano Erin Morley plays the mechanical doll Olympia in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Metropolitan Opera. Morley’s vivid ballerina o…
SOURCE: PBS at 03:21PMThursday, April 16, 2015
Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo stars as the tortured poet unlucky in love in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, May 10 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check lo…
SOURCE: PBS at 03:10PMThursday, April 9, 2015
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (“The Master-Singer of Nuremberg”) receives its first Great Performances at the Met broadcast, Sunday, April 12 at 11 am on PBS (check local listings; in…
SOURCE: PBS at 11:54AMFriday, April 3, 2015
Annie Lennox: Nostalgia Live in Concert, featuring Great American Songbook classics from her Grammy-nominated album Nostalgia, will air on THIRTEEN’s Great Performances in April 3, at 10 …
SOURCE: PBS at 09:50PMTuesday, March 31, 2015
Met Music Director James Levine leads Wagner’s grand comedy Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (“The Master-Singer of Nuremberg”) in its first Great Performances at the Met broadcast, Sun…
SOURCE: PBS at 12:55PMSaturday, March 28, 2015
Mark Morris’s signature work L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato comes to television for the first time, hosted by Mikhail Baryshnikov. The performance was filmed July 2014 at the Tea…
SOURCE: PBS at 12:30AMWednesday, March 25, 2015
Mark Morris interview conducted by Elisa Lichtenbaum of WNET. Choreographer Mark Morris first garnered international fame for L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato when it debuted at the …
SOURCE: PBS at 03:20PMMonday, March 23, 2015
A perfect primer for the evening-length work L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato is provided by choreographer Mark Morris, his dancers and his artistic collaborators, who explain the st…
SOURCE: PBS at 05:53PMThursday, March 19, 2015
Annie Lennox performs a soulful and rich rendition of the American Songbook classic “Summertime,” which George Gershwin composed for his opera Porgy and Bess (1935). The lyrics a…
SOURCE: PBS at 11:06AMTuesday, March 17, 2015
Here are excerpts from Mark Morris’s signature, evening-length work, L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, filmed at his group’s engagement at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain, i…
SOURCE: PBS at 06:15PMMonday, March 16, 2015
The Met’s effervescent production of Rossini’s classic comedy Il Barbiere di Siviglia — featuring some of the most instantly recognizable melodies in all of opera — returns to Great …
SOURCE: PBS at 05:21PMSaturday, February 28, 2015
Featuring Josh Groban, Renée Fleming and Joshua Bell, Great Performances partners with the New York Philharmonic and music director Alan Gilbert for a concert of memorable movie themes with…
SOURCE: PBS at 02:19PMMonday, February 9, 2015
Anita Rachvelishvili sings Carmen’s “Habanera” from Act I of Bizet’s Carmen, in a Richard Eyre production conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado at the Metropolitan Opera. …
SOURCE: PBS at 02:26PMMonday, February 2, 2015
Bizet’s ever-popular Carmen returns with Anita Rachvelishvili as the gypsy seductress on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, February 22 at 12 noon on PBS (check local listings). In New …
SOURCE: PBS at 04:10PMThursday, January 29, 2015
Russian star soprano Anna Netrebko makes her North American debut as the fatally ambitious Lady Macbeth. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi conducts his first-ever performances of Verdi’s…
SOURCE: PBS at 02:34PMThursday, January 15, 2015
Verdi’s powerful Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth airs on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, February 1 at 12 noon (check local listings; in New York, THIRTEEN will air the opera at 12:30 …
SOURCE: PBS at 04:50PMSaturday, January 10, 2015
This star-studded, 90-minute performance documentary offers an overview of the Kennedy Center’s American Voices weekend-long festival, which was created and hosted by Renée Fleming in Nov…
SOURCE: PBS at 12:30AMMonday, January 5, 2015
Mozart’s elegant masterpiece of marital discord, Le Nozze di Figaro, conducted by Met Music Director James Levine and staged by Richard Eyre, is the season nine premiere of Great Performan…
SOURCE: PBS at 05:30PMSutton Foster has won Tony Awards for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical in 2002 for the role of Millie Dillmount in Thoroughly Modern Millie and in 2011 for her performanc…
SOURCE: PBS at 01:31PMFriday, January 2, 2015
Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the sixth time to host the festive annual New Year’s celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of Zubin Mehta, from Vi…
SOURCE: PBS at 01:59PMMonday, December 29, 2014
Acclaimed opera soprano Renée Fleming sings “Danny Boy,” a song dear to Irish Americans, at the American Voices Concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The performance …
SOURCE: PBS at 11:30PMJulie Andrews takes a coffee break from hosting From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2015 in Café Griensteidl, right beside Vienna’s Imperial Palace. The original Café Grienstei…
SOURCE: PBS at 10:30AMWednesday, December 17, 2014
This star-studded 90-minute performance documentary offers an overview of the Kennedy Center’s weekend-long American Voices festival, which was created and hosted by Renée Fleming in Nove…
SOURCE: PBS at 03:18PMMonday, December 15, 2014
Patricia Racette performed the role of Cio-Cio-San in the 2009 Met production of Puccini’s tragic love story opera, Madama Butterfly. Racette sings the heartbreaking aria of hope, “U…
SOURCE: PBS at 03:05PMThe deadly rage and passion of Don José, played by Roberto Alagna, is unleashed upon his former lover, Carmen, played by Elīna Garanča, in this final scene of Bizet’s Carmen. Debora…
SOURCE: PBS at 02:37PMDeborah Voigt, host of Encores! Great Performances at the Met, is included in the highlights of past Metropolitan Opera production. Voigt performed the role of Isolde in Tristan and Isolde, …
SOURCE: PBS at 02:23PM 
