Arts and Music

Great Performances

Great Performances brings the best in the performing arts from across America and around the world to a US television audience. It presents a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2023

1h 26m

Great Performances presents the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s summer night concert from Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace Gardens. Focusing on musical works from French Romanticism to Impressionism, the orchestra is led for the first time by Metropolitan Opera music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Episodes

  • Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2023: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2023

    S50 E24 - 1h 26m

    Great Performances presents the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s summer night concert from Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace Gardens. Focusing on musical works from French Romanticism to Impressionism, the orchestra is led for the first time by Metropolitan Opera music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

  • Leonard Bernstein's Kaddish Symphony: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Leonard Bernstein's Kaddish Symphony

    S50 E23 - 49m 7s

    Performed from Highland Park’s Ravinia Festival, Great Performances presents legendary composer Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish symphony featuring the talent of Uniting Voices (formerly Chicago Children’s Choir), Chicago Symphony Chorus and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

  • Richard III: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Richard III

    S50 E19 - 2h 19m

    Experience The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Shakespeare’s tragedy with one of his most indelible villains starring Danai Gurira in the title role. Recorded live in July 2022 from Central Park.

  • Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best

    S50 E18 - 1h 25m

    Enjoy a revue of milestone Broadway shows and songs from 1973 to 2023 hosted by two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster. Features performances by André De Shields, Chita Rivera, Vanessa Williams and more from Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater.

  • Now Hear This “Albéniz: Portraits of Spain”: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Now Hear This “Albéniz: Portraits of Spain”

    S50 E16 - 54m 25s

    Discover the inspirations Spain provided composer Isaac Albéniz with host Scott Yoo, guitarist Manuel Barrueco, and pianist Juan Pérez Floristán along with musicians from Albéniz’s birthplace in the Pyrenees mountains as well as Sevilla, Mallorca and more.

  • Now Hear This “Andy Akiho Found (his) Sound”: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Now Hear This “Andy Akiho Found (his) Sound”

    S50 E15 - 53m 34s

    Experience the creation of music from this Japanese American composer with host Scott Yoo using “found” instruments. To develop a music video, the two visit New York City and explore the creative process with an interactive light show and more.

  • Now Hear This “Schumann: Genius and Madness”: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Now Hear This “Schumann: Genius and Madness”

    S50 E14 - 53m 25s

    Visit Scotland, Germany and France with host Scott Yoo as he investigates the connection between Robert Schumann’s bipolar disorder and creative genius via experts, musical performances and examining the work of other artists outside world of music.

  • Now Hear This “Piazzolla’s History with Tango”: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Now Hear This “Piazzolla’s History with Tango”

    S50 E13 - 53m 55s

    Tango to Buenos Aires, Argentina, with host Scott Yoo and flutist Alice Dade to explore the evolution of composer Astor Piazzolla’s work and the music genre itself as it becomes fused with jazz across time and numerous instruments.

  • Remember This: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Remember This

    S50 E10 - 1h 53m

    Experience Academy Award nominee David Strathairn as reluctant World War II hero and Holocaust witness, Jan Karski, in this one-man true story of moral courage and individual responsibility.

  • The Magic of Spirituals: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Magic of Spirituals

    S50 E9 - 54m 25s

    Glimpse behind the curtain at opera legends Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman’s famed concert at Carnegie Hall on March 18, 1990, featuring performance clips and new interviews with opera star Angel Blue, Met Opera General Manager Peter Gelb and more.

  • Movies for Grownups® Awards 2023 with AARP The Magazine: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Movies for Grownups® Awards 2023 with AARP The Magazine

    S50 E8 - 1h 52m

    Iconic and beloved screen and stage performer Alan Cumming returns as host for this awards show in which two-time Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Jamie Lee Curtis receives the Career Achievement Award.

  • Josh Groban's Great Big Radio City Show: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Josh Groban's Great Big Radio City Show

    S50 E6 - 1h 50m

    Experience the world-renowned baritone performing songs from many musical genres alongside several special guest stars including Cyndi Lauper, Denée Benton, New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck and more.

Extras + Features

  • New York City Ballet in Madrid Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    New York City Ballet in Madrid Preview

    S51 E3 - 30s

    Captured 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 Balanchine, “Serenade” and “Square Dance" as well as a piece by current resident choreographer Justin Peck.

  • Don Giovanni, a cenar teco: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Don Giovanni, a cenar teco

    S51 E2 - 1m 59s

    Don Giovanni (Peter Mattei), Leporello (Adam Plachetka), and the Commendatore (Alexander Tsymbalyuk) perform an excerpt from the Act II aria "Don Giovanni, a cenar teco."

  • Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni Preview

    S51 E2 - 30s

    Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes his Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy. Maestro Nathalie Stutzmann also makes her Met debut, conducting the cast led by baritone Peter Mattei in the title role alongside bass-baritone Adam Plachetka as Leporello.

  • Der Rosenkavalier Final Trio: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Der Rosenkavalier Final Trio

    S51 E1 - 2m 19s

    Lise Davidsen, Erin Morley, and Samantha Hankey, as the Marschallin, Sophie, and Octavian, sing an excerpt from the Act III trio.

  • Great Performances at the Met: Der Rosenkavalier Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Great Performances at the Met: Der Rosenkavalier Preview

    S51 E1 - 30s

    Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy includes soprano Lise Davidsen as the aging Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey as her lover Octavian and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart. Bass Günther Groissböck returns as the churlish Baron Ochs, and Markus Brück is Sophie’s wealthy father, Faninal.

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