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.

George Jones: Still Playin’ Possum

1h 24m

Honor one of the most beloved stars in country music history with this all-star tribute concert featuring Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, Wynonna, Jelly Roll, Tanya Tucker, Travis Tritt, Lorrie Morgan, Justin Moore, Trace Adkins and more.

Episodes

  • Great Performances: Keeping Company with Sondheim: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Great Performances: Keeping Company with Sondheim

    S49 E29 - 1h 13m

    Take an inside look at the reimagined gender-swapped production as it returns to Broadway during the COVID-19 pandemic. Features new interviews with Tony and Grammy-winning cast members Katrina Lenk, Patti LuPone, Sondheim and more.

  • Great Performances: Merry Wives: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Great Performances: Merry Wives

    S49 E28 - 1h 49m

    Experience Shakespeare’s comedic masterpiece from the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park set in South Harlem telling the story of the trickster Falstaff and the wily wives who outwit him in a celebration of Black joy, laughter and vitality.

  • Great Performances: Anything Goes: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Great Performances: Anything Goes

    S49 E27 - 2h 20m

    Enjoy this London production of Cole Porter’s classic musical led by Sutton Foster who reprises her Tony-winning role as Reno Sweeney directed by Kathleen Marshall with favorite songs like “I Get A Kick Out of You” and “You’re the Top.”

  • Now Hear This "New American Voices": asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Now Hear This "New American Voices"

    S49 E25 - 54m 25s

    Scott Yoo discovers how American composers are inspired by their immigrant roots today through two composers: Brazilian-born Sergio Assad and Indian American Reena Esmail.

  • Now Hear This "Amy Beach: American Romantic": asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Now Hear This "Amy Beach: American Romantic"

    S49 E22 - 53m 54s

    Host Scott Yoo and his wife, flutist Alice Dade, perform the work of Romantic era classical composer Amy Beach at Festival Mosaic and uncover Beach’s many musical influences. Featuring performances of Beach’s works, the duo visits places Beach took inspiration from throughout her life, including an artist residency at MacDowell in New Hampshire.

  • Great Performances: The Conductor: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Great Performances: The Conductor

    S49 E20 - 1h 24m

    Follow Marin Alsop’s journey to become the first female music director of a major American symphony despite repeated rejection by the classical music industry. Features archival footage with her mentor Leonard Bernstein and is set to a soundtrack of her performances.

  • Great Performances – Reopening: The Broadway Revival: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Great Performances – Reopening: The Broadway Revival

    S49 E16 - 54m

    Go behind the scenes of Broadway as shows reunite, rehearse and re-stage for their long-awaited reopening nights while the theater industry learns how to turn the lights back on after its longest hiatus in history due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Coppelia: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Coppelia

    S49 E10 - 1h 16m

    Enjoy this contemporary reboot of the 1870 classical ballet favorite. Blending live action ballet with CGI, the film features ballet stars Michaela DePrince and Daniel Camargo.

  • Great Performances: San Francisco Symphony Reopening Night: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Great Performances: San Francisco Symphony Reopening Night

    S49 E9 - 1h 22m

    Celebrate opening night of San Francisco Symphony’s 110th season as it welcomes its new GRAMMY-winning music director Esa-Pekka Salonen, featuring music by John Adams, esperanza spalding & Wayne Shorter and performances by Alonzo King LINES Ballet.

  • Great Performances: A John Williams Premiere at Tanglewood: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Great Performances: A John Williams Premiere at Tanglewood

    S49 E8 - 1h 24m

    Experience a concert of works by legendary composer John Williams from Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home at Tanglewood including Williams’ new violin concerto performed by virtuoso Anne-Sophie Mutter and other works conducted by Andris Nelsons.

Extras + Features

  • Highlights from Wagnerians in Concert: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Highlights from Wagnerians in Concert

    S49 E7 - 3m 52s

    Enjoy highlights from Wagnerians in Concert, featuring some of opera’s most powerful and dramatic singers, Christine Goerke, Elza van den Heever, Andreas Schager and Michael Volle.

  • Wagnerians in Concert Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Wagnerians in Concert Preview

    S49 E7 - 30s

    Recorded in May, a quartet of some of opera’s most powerful and dramatic singers comes together at the Hessisches Staatstheater in Wiesbaden, Germany. Sopranos Christine Goerke and Elza van den Heever, tenor Andreas Schager, and baritone Michael Volle perform a program of selections by Wagner and Strauss.

  • Now Hear This "Beethoven's Ghost" Official Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Now Hear This "Beethoven's Ghost" Official Preview

    S49 E6 - 30s

    Go inside the mind of a genius as host Scott Yoo and fellow musicians undertake a recording of Beethoven's most personal music at a historic Berkshires manor to explore the composer’s brilliant career—where they are visited by some unexpected guests.

  • Beethoven Interrupts His "Kreutzer" Sonata: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Beethoven Interrupts His "Kreutzer" Sonata

    S49 E6 - 1m 20s

    As host and violinist Scott Yoo and pianist Anna Polonsky attempt to record Beethoven's "Kreutzer" Sonata, the increasingly irritated composer reminisces about his own history with the piece.

  • What was Beethoven's Favorite Key?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    What was Beethoven's Favorite Key?

    S49 E6 - 1m 47s

    Scott Yoo, Bion Tsang and Toby Appel discuss what they think was Beethoven's favorite key to compose and take a reimagined approach to Beethoven's string trio.

  • Bésame Mucho: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Bésame Mucho

    S49 E5 - 2m 29s

    Nadine Sierra and Ailyn Pérez join forces with three-time GRAMMY winner Isabel Leonard to sing this beautiful rendition of "Bésame Mucho" in Great Performances at the Met: Three Divas at Versailles.

  • Behind the Scenes | Three Divas at Versailles: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Behind the Scenes | Three Divas at Versailles

    S49 E5 - 47s

    Get an inside look at the magic behind Three Divas at Versailles with PBS and Great Performances. Listen to Isabel Leonard as she explains what this program means to her, and why the arts are more important than ever.

  • Three Divas at Versailles Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Three Divas at Versailles Preview

    S49 E5 - 30s

    Three-time GRAMMY winner Isabel Leonard joins Nadine Sierra and Ailyn Pérez to perform timeless selections by Mozart, Offenbach and Bizet including “Voi che sapete” and “Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour” along with beloved songs like “Bésame Mucho” and “Cielito Lindo.” The concert was recorded in May at the Royal Opera of Versailles in France and Met Opera soprano Christine Goerke hosts.

  • Sondra Radvanovsky and Piotr Beczala in Concert Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Sondra Radvanovsky and Piotr Beczala in Concert Preview

    S49 E4 - 30s

    From the historic Stadthalle in Wuppertal, Germany, recorded in January, this world-famous soprano-tenor pair perform arias and duets from some of their many performances at the Met including Giordano’s “Andrea Chénier,” Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino,” “Luisa Miller” and Dvořák’s “Rusalka," accompanied by Vincenzo Scalera on piano.

  • The Red Shoes Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Red Shoes Preview

    S49 E3 - 30s

    Experience Hans Christian Andersen’s dark fairytale from acclaimed director-choreographer Matthew Bourne with this Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation starring Ashley Shaw, Adam Cooper, Dominic North and Michaela Meazza.

  • The Red Shoes: From Film to Stage: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Red Shoes: From Film to Stage

    S49 E3 - 3m 33s

    Listen to director Matthew Bourne as he explains how he incorporated dance into this stage adaptation of "The Red Shoes." Based on the iconic film by the same name, Bourne chose to fully immerse the audience into the world of the dancers by integrating dance into every aspect of the show.

  • Highlights from "The Red Shoes": asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Highlights from "The Red Shoes"

    S49 E3 - 1m 34s

    Enjoy highlights from Matthew Bourne's "The Red Shoes." Based on the film by the same name, "The Red Shoes" follows Victoria Page (Ashley Shaw) as her ambitions to be a famous dancer create a battleground between the two men who inspire her passion: Composer Julian Craster (Dominic North) and impresario Boris Lermontov (Adam Cooper).

Schedule

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    Great Performances

    Now Hear This: Rising Stars

    Friday
    Apr 12

    1 Hour

    A visit to Juilliard Pre-College; Singapore's Chloe Chua.
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    Great Performances

    Now Hear This: Rising Stars

    Friday
    Apr 12

    1 Hour

    A visit to Juilliard Pre-College; Singapore's Chloe Chua.
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    Great Performances

    Now Hear This: Rising Stars

    Saturday
    Apr 13

    1 Hour

    A visit to Juilliard Pre-College; Singapore's Chloe Chua.
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    Great Performances

    Now Hear This: Rising Stars

    Saturday
    Apr 13

    1 Hour

    A visit to Juilliard Pre-College; Singapore's Chloe Chua.

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