Great Performances

Episode 1

Episode 2

Cyrano de Bergerac

Long-nosed Cyrano de Begerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves. Directed by William Ball, starring P

Episode 1

June Moon

In a nod to the days of classic American comedy, a 1929's Tin Pan Alley lyricist meets a composer who has a big hit: "Pa

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

Mr. Holroyd is an alcoholic, abusive miner in pre-WWI England who terrorizes his family. Mrs. Holroyd plans to run away

Antigone

King Lear

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of lov

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

The Seagull

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Sarah

Fictionalized biography of Sarah Bernhard.

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Abide with Me

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 1

The Most Happy Fella

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Great Performances' 10th Anniversary Celebration

Ellington: The Music Lives On

Episode 2

Alice in Wonderland

Laurence Olivier: A Life

A multi-award winning biography covering the life and career of actor/director Laurence Olivier.

Taking My Turn

The Best of Broadway

Orpheus

Ulysses

The Coronation of Poppea

Doctor Fischer of Geneva

Three by Three

Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music

The Importance of Being Ernest

In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.

Heartbreak House

Re-creation of the Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's 1920 comedy of manners. The troubles of England are para

Early Days

Grown-Ups

A middle-aged journalist has, at last, grown up - only to find he's trapped in a world of emotional infants.

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

The Gospel at Colonus (Episode 4)

The legendary gospel musical that transforms Sophocles’ timeless tale of the last days of Oedipus into a parable for o

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

The Cotton Club Remenbered

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Early Days

Episode 1

Episode 2

Monsignor Quixote

In this modern adaptation of the Don Quixote theme based on a novel by Graham Greene, Quixote is an old Spanish village

Celebrating Gershwin: The Jazz Age

Broadway Sings: The Music of Jule Styne

Musical salute to composer Jule Styne.

Episode 6

Episode 7

The Music Makers: An ASCAP Celebration of American Music at Wolf Trap

Episode 9

A Hollywood actress who worries that the movie world is eroding her grip on reality is drawn into a love affair with an

Episode 10

Episode 11

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Richard Burton: In from the Cold

Episode 6

San Francisco Opera: Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

An Evening with Alan Jay Lerner

Musical celebration of the songs of lyricist Alan Jay Lerner.

Episode 9

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Music by Richard Rodgers

Life and work of American composer Richard Rodgers, whose work, in collaboration with Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II,

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

A Bowl of Beings

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 1

The Maestros of Philadelphia

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

The Sorceress

Passing the Baton

Pete Townshend's Psychoderelict

On the Town in Concert

Leonard Bernstein: The Gift of Music

Turandot

Jerry Herman: Broadway at the Bowl

Vladimir Horowitz: A Reminiscence

Wanda Horowitz reminisces about her husband, the great pianist Vladimir Horowitz, with clips from his television appeara

Episode 12

The Songs of Six Families

Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters: Verve Records at 50

La bohème

In the 50's, in Paris, the neighbors Rodolfo and Mimi meet each other when Mimi's candle blows out in a cold and dark ni

Episode 16

Episode 17

El Gato Montés

Suddenly, Last Summer

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

Episode 11

Episode 12

Episode 13

Episode 14

Episode 15

Turandot

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

The World of Jim Henson

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

Episode 11

Episode 1

Les Misérables in Concert

The story of the fall and redemption of Jean Valjean, arrested for stealing some bread for his starving family. In priso

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1997

Episode 2

Robert Altman's Jazz '34

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Henry V at Shakespeare's Globe

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1998

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Frank Sinatra: The Very Good Years

Frank Sinatra's beginnings in Hoboken New Jersey, and how he discovers his passion for singing. We see as Sinatra perfor

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

Episode 11

Episode 12

Episode 13

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1999

The Rodgers & Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies

This film presents highlights of a concert given on 28 September 1998 at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Some of the lad

Episode 12

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2000

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

Episode 6

The Great American Songbook

Documentary assembling film clips of musical numbers from songwriters considered significant contributors to pop culture

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs

This production is a filmed record of a concert given on 16 October 2000 at the City Center for Music and Dance, New Yor

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

Shaolin: Wheel of Life

Episode 12

Episode 13

Keeping Score: MTT on Music

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

The Merry Widow

From Shtetl to Swing

A collective journey from synagogue choirs to Harlem hot spots, from Yiddish theater to musical extravaganza, from klezm

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

Episode 11

Garrison Keillor’s Independence Day Special: A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood

A concert version of the popular radio program.

Episode 1

Degas and the Dance

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

Episode 11

James Taylor: One Man Band

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/james-taylor-one-man-band-introduction/154/

Episode 13

Bill Irwin: Clown Prince

We Love Ella: A Tribute to the First Lady of Song

April 25, 2007, would have been Ella Fitzgerald's 90th birthday. To celebrate, Great Performances has created an all-sta

Pavarotti: A Life in Seven Arias

From soccer-playing son of a Modena, Italy, baker to onstage partner of "La Stupenda," world-renowned soprano Joan Suthe

Hitman: David Foster & Friends

Hitman: David Foster & Friends features Foster himself presiding center stage at the keyboard. The evening is a virtual

Domingo, Netrebko & Villazón: Three Stars in Vienna

From its opening vocal salvo, Domingo’s thrilling account of Lehar’s “Gern hab ich die Frau’n gekuesst” from P

Cyrano de Bergerac

David Leveaux’s stylish production, with sumptuous costumes and sets by Gregory Gale and Tom Pye respectively, remains

King Lear

2009 Emmy Nominee Ian McKellen recreates his recent stage performance of Shakespeare's tragic monarch in a special telev

Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood: Live From Madison Square Garden

Long-time friends and former band mates Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood team up for a once-in-a-lifetime reunion concert

Stevie Wonder: Live at Last

Wonder rocketed to stardom at age 12 when he was signed to Motown Records as “Little Stevie Wonder”. Over nearly fou

Chess in Concert

Wicked’s Idina Menzel and Rent’s Adam Pascal join Great Performances favorite, internationally renowned vocalist Jos

Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebration: Live from Madison Square Garden

With a career spanning more than half a century, renowned folk artist, political activist, and avid environmentalist, Pe

Episode 10

Episode 11

Episode 12

Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Considered the most dynamic young conductor in classical music since Bernstein, 28-year-old Gustavo Dudamel begins his t

Andrea Bocelli & David Foster: My Christmas

Everyone’s favorite “Hitman” David Foster joins Great Performances superstar Andrea Bocelli for a new Christmas co

Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden

Multi-Grammy-winning phenomenon Michael Bublé returns to public television in Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garde

Hamlet

Shakespeare's immortal "To be, or not to be" takes on a whole new meaning (and medium) as classical stage and screen act

Renee Fleming & Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Shakespeare's immortal "To be, or not to be" takes on a whole new meaning (and medium) as classical stage and screen act

Sting: A Winter's Night

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

Dance in America NY Export Opus Jazz

Jerome Robbins' urban ballet, set to a jazz score by Robert Prince, was originally performed in 1958. This film adaptati

Episode 12

Episode 13

Episode 14

Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Pierre Boulez Conducts Mahler

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conductor Emeritus Pierre Boulez leads the Windy City's internationally renowned orchestra in

Sondheim! The Birthday Concert

Performed on Sondheim's 80th birthday in March 2010, Great Performances presents the New York Philharmonic's salute to a

Celebracion! Dudamel, Florez, and the L.A. Philharmonic

The October 7 opening night concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music Director Gustavo Dudamel featuring renowne

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2011

Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns to host the annual New Year's celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, un

Great Performances at the Met: Don Pasquale

Anna Netrebko revives her sensational turn in this sophisticated bel canto comedy, opposite Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz K

Great Performances at the Met: Boris Godunov

Adapted from a play by Alexander Pushkin about the extraordinary reign of the 16th-century tsar, Boris Godunov is regard

Hitman Returns: David Foster & Friends

Music “hitman” David Foster returns to Las Vegas with a showstopping show jam packed with special guests including S

Harry Connick in Concert on Broadway

Taped in July of 2010 at New York's Neil Simon Theater, Harry Connick, Jr. in Concert on Broadway features Connick's big

Billy Joel: Live at Shea Stadium

Shortly before the demolition of New York City's Shea Stadium in July 2008, Billy Joel electrified audiences with two me

Great Performances at the Met: Don Carlo

The production is conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin, directed by Nicholas Hytner, and is starring Roberto Alagna, Marina

Great Performances at the Met: La Fanciulla Del West

The Metropolitan Opera's production of La Fanciulla del West, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the opera's 1910 wo

Great Performances at the Met: Iphigenie En Tauride

Gluck's rarely performed masterpiece, Iphigenie en Tauride, starring Susan Graham, Placido Domingo and Paul Groves. Patr

Carnegie Hall 120th Anniversary Concert

On May 5, 2011, Carnegie Hall commemorated its 120th anniversary with a gala concert featuring Alan Gilbert and the New

Great Performances at the Met: Nixon in China

The Metropolitan Opera's premiere production of John Adams' Nixon in China, conducted by the composer and staged by inte

Crossroads Guitar Festival 3

In June 2010, Eric Clapton gathered the world's most talented guitar players at the third Crossroads Guitar Festival. Al

Jackie Evancho Dream With Me In Concert

Jackie is the youngest star in Great Performances' recent Hitman Returns: David Foster & Friends concert, performing vir

Great Performances at the Met: Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor, with French soprano Natalie Dessay in one of her greatest roles as Donizetti's fragile heroine.

Rigoletto from Mantua

Directed by Marco Bellocchio, Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto from Mantua stars Placido Domingo as Rigoletto; Julia Novikova

Great Performances at the Met: Le Cornte Ory

A trio of bel canto stars--Juan Diego Florez, Diana Damrau, and Joyce DiDonato--headline the Met's first-ever production

Great Performances at the Met: Capriccio

Renee Fleming sings one of her signature roles, the elegant Countess in Richard Strauss's Capriccio. Andrew Davis, who l

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night 2011

Distinguished conductor Valery Gergiev leads the third annual Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night concert. This year's them

Placido Domingo: My Favorite Roles

The great Spanish tenor Placido Domingo looks back on his illustrious career - one which has been bountifully preserved

Let Them Talk: A Celebration of New Orleans Blues

An American favorite for his award-winning role in the hit TV series House, the versatile British actor Hugh Laurie show

Andrea Bocelli: Live in Central Park

Beloved tenor Andrea Bocelli performs a free concert on Central Park's Great Lawn, with the New York Philharmonic conduc

The Little Mermaid from San Francisco Ballet

John Neumeier -- director and chief choreographer for Hamburg Ballet -- blends dance, dramatic storytelling and spectacl

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2012

Herbie Hancock, Gustavo Dudamel and the LA PHIL Celebrate

Herbie Hancock, Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil Celebrate Gershwin, featuring that classic piece as well as "An American

Let Me Down Easy

Anna Deavere Smith's latest production, Let Me Down Easy. The Great Performances production was recorded in February 201

Great Performances at the Met: Anna Bolena

The Metropolitan Opera premiere of Donizetti's Anna Bolena, starring soprano Anna Netrebko in her highly anticipated fir

Tony Bennett: Duets II

Tony Bennett: Duets II features the singer's greatest hits, performed by Bennett and today's biggest stars, including Jo

Memphis

Broadway's smash hit musical Memphis, winner of four Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book and Best

Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni

Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads his first Met performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni in a new production directed b

The Thomashefskys

The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater, a celebration of Yiddish theater pioneers Boris

The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall

The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, a fully-staged, lavish 25th anniversary mounting of Andrew Lloyd Webb

Great Performances at the Met: Satyagraha

Philip Glass's inspirational opera Satyagraha (Sanskrit for "truth force"), in the first revival of Phelim McDermott and

San Francisco Symphony at 100

San Francisco Symphony's Centennial Season opening night gala, conducted by Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. The tw

Great Performances at the Met: Rodelinda

Renee Fleming reprises one of her most popular interpretations: the title role in Handel's Rodelinda, under the baton of

Great Performances at the Met: Faust

Three of the opera world’s leading stars—Jonas Kaufmann, Marina Poplavskaya, and René Pape—sing the principal rol

Great Performances at the Met: The Enchanted Island

The Enchanted Island is a world premiere work that combines Baroque music with a new, English-language libretto featurin

Great Performances at the Met: Ernani

Angela Meade, Marcello Giodani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Ferruccio Furlanetto star in Verdi’s Ernani.

Great Performances at the Met: Manon

Star soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met performances of the title role in Manon, Massenet’s opera about a count

Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration

The concert features the BSO, Boston Pops Orchestra and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, under the direction of conduc

Jackie Evancho: Music of the Movies

THIRTEEN’s Great Performances will present 12-year-old classical crossover prodigy Jackie Evancho’s second televisio

Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata

Acclaimed French soprano Natalie Dessay makes her Met role debut as Violetta, the fallen woman who sacrifices her last c

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2012

Under the baton of the dynamic and electric guest maestro, Gustavo Dudamel, the Vienna Philharmonic performs the finale

Great Performances at the Met: Wagner's Dream

Robert Lepage’s acclaimed new production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Paul McCartney's Live Kisses

Paul McCartney’s Live Kisses captures the magical night of February 9 in the City of Angels when Paul McCartney decide

Rod Stewart: Merry Christmas, Baby

Grammy Award®-winning, two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Rod Stewart, hosts his first holiday special featur

Magical Mystery Tour Revisited

Magical Mystery Tour was chock-full of thinly veiled references to psychedelia, anarchy and fantasy, all in the setting

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2013

We continue the cherished tradition of ringing in the New Year with special host Julie Andrews and the Vienna Philharmon

Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy

This film explores the unique role of Jewish composers and lyricists in the creation of the modern American musical. Fea

Paul Simon's Graceland Journey: Under African Skies

An epic journey following Paul Simon back to South Africa, where, decades earlier, he created his seminal album Gracelan

Great Performances at the Met: L'Elisir d'Amore

Great Performances at the Met: The Tempest

The Tempest, Robert Lepage’s Staging of the English-language Opera Based on Shakespeare’s Final Play.

Great Performances at the Met: La Clemenza di Tito

La Clemenza di Tito, Mozart’s final opera seria, with Barbara Frittoli, Elīna Garanča, and Giuseppe Filianoti airs o

Great Performances at the Met: Un Ballo in Maschera

The Met’s new production of Un Ballo in Maschera, Verdi's classic drama of political intrigue and thwarted romance.

Great Performances at the Met: Rigoletto

Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) makes his Met debut with a new production of Verdi’s Rigo

Great Performances at the Met: Aida

One of the most popular and beloved operas of all time, Aida, in a spectacular staging that captures the grandeur of Anc

Great Performances at the Met: Les Troyens

Fabio Luisi conducts the five-act tragedy, which stars Deborah Voigt as Cassandra, Susan Graham as Dido, and Bryan Hymel

Dancing at Jacob’s Pillow: Never Stand Still

Directed by veteran documentary filmmaker Ron Honsa, "Dancing at Jacob’s Pillow: Never Stand Still" reveals the passio

Great Performances at the Met: Parsifal

Jonas Kaufmann sings the title role in The Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Parsifal"

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2013

The works of Wagner and Verdi are featured in the beloved concert from Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace Gardens.

Great Performances at the Met: Francesca di Rimini

Eva-Maria Westbroek and Marcello Giordani star in Zandonai’s masterpiece Francesca da Rimini, the classic tale of doom

Great Performances at the Met: Giulio Cesare

David Daniels and Natalie Dessay star in David McVicar‘s innovative production of Handel’s most popular opera.

Richard II

Witness Ben Whishaw’s performance as Richard in this television adaptation of Shakespeare’s play.

Henry IV Part 1

Jeremy Irons and Tom Hiddleston star in the Shakespeare's history play.

Henry IV Part 2

Jeremy Irons and Tom Hiddleston star in Shakespeare's history play.

Henry V

Henry V has settled onto the throne and has the makings of a fine King. The French Ambassador brings a challenge from th

Great Performances 40th Anniversary Celebration

In celebration of the series’ 40th anniversary on PBS, a stellar roster of diverse alumni gather to share their storie

San Francisco Opera's Moby Dick

Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer’s award-winning opera Moby-Dick will be broadcast on THIRTEEN’s Grea

Company with the New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic’s concert staging of Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical Company includes the all-sta

Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!"

Directed by Sir Trevor Nunn, and choreographed by Susan Stroman, the acclaimed Royal National Theatre production starrin

Barbra Streisand: Back to Brooklyn

The legendary Barbra Streisand makes a historic homecoming to Brooklyn at the new Barclays Center arena, marking the sup

Pavarotti: A Voice for the Ages

This one-hour program airing in late November and December is dedicated to the great tenor, Luciano Pavarotti. It includ

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2014

Julie Andrews hosts this annual New Year's Day celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic. Daniel Barenboim conducts a pro

Great Performanes at the Met: Eugene Onegin

Tchaikovsky’s romantic tragedy Eugene Onegin, starring Anna Netrebko, Mariusz Kwiecien, and Piotr Beczala, is the seas

Barrymore

John Barrymore (Christopher Plummer) banters with his line prompter Frank before beginning a rehearsal of "Richard III,"

National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage

The National Theatre in London celebrates its 50th anniversary with a cast of theater legends, including Maggie Smith, R

Sting: The Last Ship

Watch highlights from Sting's live performance of "The Last Ship" at the Public Theater in New York City. The 16-time Gr

Great Performances at the Met: The Nose

William Kentridge‘s dazzlingly innovative production of Shostakovich’s shocking, unconventional opera about a beleag

Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs as Dukes of Sept.

Rock & roll royalty Donald Fagen (Steely Dan), Michael McDonald (The Doobie Brothers) and Boz Scaggs join forces as thei

Steve Martin and The Sheep Canyon Rangers ft Edie Brickell

See Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers, featuring Edie Brickell, in their first-ever live concert performance to

Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Celebration Concert

Great Performances presents a special encore of highlights from 1992’s star-studded concert tribute to Bob Dylan, the

Great Performances at the Met: Tosca

Tosca, Puccini’s favorite opera, stars an exceptional trio of singing actors. Acclaimed American soprano Patricia Race

The Dave Clark Five and Beyond - Glad All Over

In the 1960s, the British band The Dave Clark Five achieved a record-breaking 15 consecutive Top 20 U.S. hit singles wit

Great Performances at the Met: Falstaff

Verdi’s brilliant final opera, "Falstaff," is conducted by Metropolitan Opera Music Director James Levine in his first

Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty

Leo's kiss of true love breaks the curse that has held Princess Aurora (Hannah Vassallo) under its spell. After 100 year

Great Performances at the Met: Rusalka

Renée Fleming sings one of her signature roles, the title character in Dvořák's Rusalka, an opera about a water spiri

Great Performances at the Met: Prince Igor

Borodin's Russian epic Prince Igor, performed by the Met for the first time in nearly 100 years. The acclaimed new produ

Great Performances at the Met: La Boheme

Franco Zeffirelli’s production of La Bohème, the most-performed opera in Met history, starring Italian tenor Vittorio

Great Performances at the Met: Werther

Tenor Jonas Kaufmann stars as the tortured poet in the Met’s new production of Jules Massenet’s Werther on Great Per

Dudamel Conducts Verdi Requiem at the Hollywood Bowl

The acclaimed outdoor performance celebrating the 200th anniversary of Verdi’s birth is interspersed with archival foo

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2014

Led for the first time by a guest conductor Christoph Eschenbach, the world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic returns for the

Great Performances at the Met: Cosi Fan Tutte

James Levine conducts Mozart’s romance Così fan tutte, a comic opera about the complications that ensue when two frie

Rejoice with Itzhak Perlman & Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot

Legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman and celebrated cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot join forces for a musical exploration of

Great Performances at the Met: La Cenerentola

Joyce DiDonato sings the title role in Rossini’s Cinderella story, La Cenerentola, with bel canto master Juan Diego Fl

Star-Spangled Spectacular

John Lithgow hosts a two-hour event with Grammy-, Emmy- and Tony-winning performers, along with co-host Jordin Sparks on

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE!

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE! – featuring an evening of classic jazz standards in both vocal duets an

Cats: The Musical

This special encore presentation of the original 1998 broadcast of "Cats" on Great Performances. Let the "Memory" live a

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2015

Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the sixth time to host the festive annual New Year’s celebration wit

American Voices with Renée Fleming

World-renowned American opera singer Renée Fleming convenes a festival of special guests to celebrate the diverse range

GP at the Met: Le Nozze di Figaro

The season nine premiere of Great Performances at the Met is Mozart’s elegant masterpiece of marital discord, Le Nozze

Macbeth

Director Rupert Goold's gripping stage production of Macbeth, set in a nameless 20th-century militaristic society and st

Great Performances at the Met: Carmen

Acclaimed director Richard Eyre’s production of Carmen stars Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili in the title

La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema

Conducted by Alan Gilbert, selections include music by Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Luis Bacalov, performed by the New Yo

Bryan Adams in Concert

Canadian born singer-songwriter Bryan Adams has been one of the most successful international performers in contemporary

Great Performances at the Met: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Rossini’s classic comedy Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) features some of the most instantly recogniza

Mark Morris Dance Group: L'Allegro

Choreographer Mark Morris’s signature work comes to television for the first time, hosted by Mikhail Baryshnikov. Morr

Annie Lennox: Nostalgia Live in Concert

The concert of her Grammy-nominated album features Lennox’s takes on iconic American compositions by such artists as H

Great Performances at the Met: Meistersinger

James Levine leads Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (“The Master-Singer of Nuremberg”) in its first Great

Great Performances at the Met: Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo stars as the tortured poet unlucky in love in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann on Gr

Boston Symphony Orchestra: Andris Nelsons' Concert

The start of BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons’ tenure with the orchestra features two of the conductor’s close coll

Great Performances at the Met: The Merry Widow

The lavish new staging of Lehár’s effervescent operetta The Merry Widow is the Met debut of Broadway director and cho

Great Performances at the Met: Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle

Polish film director Mariusz Treliński makes his Met debut with the new production, inspired by noir films of the 1940s

Driving Miss Daisy

Alfred Uhry’s classic play is a searing, funny, and hopeful meditation on race relations in America, told through the

Dudamel Conducts a John Williams Celebration With the LA Phil

Natalie Portman hosts Dudamel Conducts a John Williams Celebration with the LA Phil on Great Performances. Itzhak Perlma

Great Performances at the Met: La Donna Del Lago

Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez headline Rossini’s bel canto tour-de-force "La Donna del Lago" on Great Performa

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2015

Led by guest conductor Zubin Mehta, the world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic returns for its 12th open-air summer concert,

Great Performances at the Met: Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci

Sir David McVicar directs the first new Met production of the popular verismo double bill in 45 years: Cavalleria Rustic

Billy Elliot: The Musical

The hit musical both on Broadway and in London’s West End was recorded for broadcast at the show's West End home, the

Chita Rivera: A Lot of Livin’ to Do

A retrospective of Broadway legend Chita Rivera. Luminaries Dick Van Dyke, John Kander, Carol Lawrence, Ben Vereen, and

Andrea Bocelli: Cinema

The international superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli lends his unique voice to a lush symphonic salute to the movies, celebr

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2016

Julie Andrews hosts the annual New Year’s Day celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic from Vienna’s Musikverein, a

Great Performances at the Met: Il Trovatore

Soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Yonghoon Lee make their Met role debuts in Verdi's Il Trovatore. Netrebko sings Leonora,

Great Performances at the Met: Otello

Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher’s acclaimed new Met Opera production is led by conductor Yannick Nézet-Ség

Great Performances at the Met: Tannhäuser

Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser comes to Great Performances at the Met for the first time and is conducted by James Levine.

Great Performances at the Met: Lulu

Artist William Kentridge directs Alban Berg’s opera Lulu, starring German soprano Marlis Petersen as the irresistible

Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration

A concert with folk music legend Joan Baez and others, celebrating her birthday at the Beacon Theatre in New York City.

Great Performances at the Met: The Pearl Fishers

Conducted by Gianandrea Noseda and directed by Penny Woolcock, Bizet’s sweeping romance tells the story of a beautiful

Great Performances at the Met: Turandot

Hear Swedish soprano Nina Stemme sing the demanding title role of Puccini’s Chinese ice princess, with Anita Hartig as

Great Performances at the Met: Manon Lescaut

Hear Kristine Opolais and Roberto Alagna as the ill-fated lovers in Puccini’s passionate adaptation of the classic nov

Great Performances at the Met: Madama Butterfly

Kristine Opolais brings her heartbreaking interpretation of the title role to the series for the first time. Roberto Ala

Great Performances at the Met: Roberto Devereux

The last opera in Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy, directed by Sir David McVicar, stars Sondra Radvanovsky as Elizabeth I an

Great Performances at the Met: Elektra

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts patrice Chéreau’s acclaimed staging of Elektra, with Nina Stemme in the title role on Grea

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2016

Led by guest conductor Semyon Bychkov for the very first time, the world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic returns for its 13

GRAMMY Salute to Music Legends 2016

In collaboration with The Recording Academy, Great Performances presents “GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends,” a special

Hamilton's America

A behind-the-scenes look at Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway musical Hamilton, coming to Great Performances as part of the

Gypsy

Jonathan Kent’s award-winning production of the classic musical Gypsy – a record-breaking sellout during its acclaim

The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses | Henry VI, Part 1

The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses with an all-star cast including Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Sturridge, Sophie Okon

The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses | Henry VI, Part 2

Henry IV Part 2 is the second of three parts in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses. Bitter rivalries erupt into the

Shakespeare Live! From the Royal Shakespeare Company

The star-studded Shakespeare Live! from the Royal Shakespeare Company salutes the Bard across multiple genres. This cele

The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses | Richard III

Richard III is the third of three parts in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses. Richard III, the most notorious of S

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2017

Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the eighth time to host the festive annual New Year's celebration with

Bel Canto the Opera From Lyric Opera of Chicago

Alicia Keys - Landmarks Live in Concert

The series premieres with a native New Yorker from Hell’s Kitchen, Grammy Award-winning artist, Alicia Keys. Her colla

Brad Paisley – Landmarks Live in Concert

Country music superstar Brad Paisley returns to his roots in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains for a special outdoor c

Great Performances at the Met: Tristan und Isolde

The Met’s new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in his first Met performances

New York City Ballet in Paris

New York City Ballet in Paris is the part one of a two-part special featuring four ballets by NYCB co-founder George Bal

Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni

Charismatic baritone Simon Keenlyside stars as the title character in Don Giovanni, bringing his acclaimed interpretatio

New York City Ballet Symphony in C

New York City Ballet Symphony in C is part two of a two-part special featuring four ballets by NYCB co-founder George Ba

Dudamel Conducts Tangos Under the Stars

Gustavo Dudamel accents the colors, rhythms, and passion of music by leading composers from Argentina in this invigorati

Great Performances at the Met: L'Amour de Loin

Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin (“Love From Afar”), one of the most highly praised operas of recent years.

Young Men

Young Men, a World War I-inspired feature-length dance film commemorating the Great War’s centennial. Young Men was fi

Great Performances at The Met: Romeo et Juliette

Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo star as the tragic lovers in Shakespeare’s classic story. Gounod’s Roméo et Julie

Great Performances at the Met: Nabucco

The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met as the title king in Nabucco, under the baton

Great Performances at the Met: Rusalka

Kristine Opolais stars in her first Met performance as the title character in Antonin Dvořák's Rusalka. The critically

Andrea Bocelli – Landmarks Live in Concert

Andrea Bocelli – Landmarks Live in Concert continues the new Landmarks arts strand. Each Landmarks Live in Concert spe

Great Performances at the Met: Idomeneo

Music Director Emeritus James Levine conducts an extraordinary ensemble in Idomeneo, Mozart’s early masterpiece of lov

Great Performances at The Met: Eugene Onegin

Anna Netrebko stars as Tatiana, the naïve heroine of Tchaikovsky’s opera, with Peter Mattei as the title character wh

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2017

The world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic returns for its 14th open-air concert, in Austria’s Imperial Schönbrunn Palace

Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata

Sonya Yoncheva reprises her widely praised interpretation of the heroine Violetta Valéry in Verdi’s La Traviata, on G

Great Performances at the Met: Der Rosenkavalier

Renée Fleming performs one of her greatest signature roles, The Marschallin, in Der Rosenkavalier on the season finale

Havana Time Machine

Great Performances and Latino Public Broadcasting’s VOCES present Havana Time Machine on Friday October 6 at 9PM on PB

GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends® 2017

In collaboration with the Recording Academy®, Great Performances presents Grammy Salute To Music Legends 2017®, the se

She Loves Me

The celebrated score features favorites such as “Vanilla Ice Cream,” “A Romantic Atmosphere,” “Dear Friend,”

Noël Coward’s Present Laughter

Noël Coward’s Present Laughter follows a self-obsessed actor in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Juggling his consider

In The Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams

In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams chronicles the personal stories of composer/lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda and the

Foo Fighters – Landmarks Live in Concert

Multi-Grammy-winning rock band Foo Fighters delivers an electrifying, historic performance at the Acropolis in Athens, G

Indecent

The Tony Award-winning play Indecent comes to Great Performances on Friday, November 17 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local li

Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn

The festive Roundabout Theatre Company production of Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn - The Broadway Musical comes to PBS.

The Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed Live

The Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed Live from Great Performances premieres nationwide beginning November 25 on PBS (c

Hitman: David Foster & Friends

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2018

Great Performances continues the cherished tradition of ringing in the new year with the Vienna Philharmonic with Chicag

Great Performances at the Met: Norma

Great Performances at the Met Season 12 begins with a new production of Bellini’s masterpiece about a woman scorned, c

Nas Live From the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop

Two decades after the album’s critically acclaimed release, Nas teamed up with the National Symphony Orchestra at the

Movies for Grownups® Awards with AARP the Magazine

This year’s 17th annual Movies for Grownups® Awards with AARP the Magazine will be broadcast for the first time ever.

Great Performances at the Met: Exterminating Angel

Season 12 of Great Performances at the Met continues on PBS on Sunday, March 25, with the American premiere of Thomas Ad

will.i.am and Friends Featuring the Black Eyed Peas

International superstar will.i.am performs from London’s historic Royal Albert Hall in a one-night-only concert event.

Great Performances at the Met: L’Elisir d’Amore

Donizetti’s comedy charms with Pretty Yende as Adina and Matthew Polenzani as Nemorino. The poor country boy Nemorino

Great Performances at the Met: La Boheme

See the classic Puccini opera starring Sonya Yoncheva as Mimì and Michael Fabiano as Rodolfo. In 1830s Paris, the buddi

The Opera House

Explore the rich history of the Met Opera’s Lincoln Center home and the cultural life of 1950s-60s New York City. Feat

Great Performances at the Met: Tosca

Sonya Yoncheva and Vittorio Grigolo sing Tosca and Cavaradossi’s Act I duet in the final dress rehearsal.

Ellis Island: The Dream of America with Pacific Symphony

THIRTEEN’s Great Performances and Pacific Symphony, led by music director Carl St.Clair, pay tribute to America’s hi

Great Performances at the Met: Semiramide

Great Performances at the Met: Così fan tutte

Enjoy a new production of Mozart’s comedy of the sexes set in 1950s Coney Island. Stars Kelli O’Hara, Amanda Majeski

Chicago Voices

Celebrate Chicago’s vibrant music culture with performances by Renée Fleming, Broadway’s Jessie Mueller, rap artist

Great Performances at the Met: Luisa Miller

Experience Verdi’s heart-wrenching opera with Plácido Domingo as Miller, and Sonya Yoncheva in the title role opposit

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2018

Enjoy the world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic’s annual open-air concert from Austria’s Imperial Schönbrunn Palace, f

The Chris Botti Band in Concert

With this new special, Great Performances puts the spotlight on Botti and his band, capturing one of today’s leading j

Great Performances at the Met: Cendrillon

Experience Massenet’s Cinderella with Joyce DiDonato in the title role, Alice Coote as Prince Charming, Kathleen Kim a

GRAMMY Salute to Music Legends® 2018

Enjoy an all-star concert honoring Neil Diamond, Tina Turner, Queen, film composer John Williams, New Orleans funk band

An American In Paris The Musical

Experience one of the most famous musicals of all time with a celebrated new adaptation featuring the original Tony Awar

Sound of Music

Beloved by generations of audiences worldwide, “The Sound of Music” tells the inspiring true story of the von Trapp

John Leguizamo’s Road to Broadway

Go behind-the-scenes of John Leguizamo’s Tony-nominated one-man show, Latin History for Morons, a comic but pointed lo

Harold Prince: The Director’s Life

Take a peek into the legendary career of the pioneering Broadway producer and director and winner of 21 Tony Awards with

Tony Bennett & Diana Krall – Love Is Here to Stay

Join Tony Bennett and Diana Krall as they celebrate the American Songbook classics of George and Ira Gershwin, performin

Michael Bublé: Tour Stop 148

Experience superstar singer Michael Bublé’s visually thrilling and musically triumphant ‘To Be Loved Tour’ featur

k.d. lang – Landmarks Live in Concert

Celebrate the 25th anniversary Ingénue, the critically acclaimed and GRAMMY®-award winning album by superstar singer-s

Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood

In honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, Tanglewood—the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—

Great Performances at the Met: Aida

Watch Verdi’s grand opera featuring his most celebrated arias. Starring vocal powerhouses Anna Netrebko in the title r

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2019

Great Performances continues the cherished tradition of ringing in the new year with the Vienna Philharmonic at the opul

The Cleveland Orchestra Centennial Celebration

Celebrate the orchestra’s centennial with a gala concert conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, featuring pianist Lang Lang,

Orphée et Eurydice from Lyric Opera of Chicago

Experience Christoph Willibald Gluck’s enduringly popular French-language opera based on the famous Greek myth. From L

Doubt from the Minnesota Opera

Watch an adaptation of John Patrick Shanley’s hit 2005 Broadway play and the 2008 film about suspicion leading to a ba

Great Performances at the Met: Marnie

Watch composer Nico Muhly’s reimagining of Winston Graham’s novel about a beautiful, mysterious woman who assumes mu

Movies for Grownups Awards with AARP The Magazine 2019

The AARP Movies for Grownups multimedia franchise was established in 2002 to celebrate and encourage filmmaking with uni

Great Performances at the Met: La Fanciulla del West

Watch Puccini’s blazing love story set in the Wild West, based on David Belasco’s play “The Girl of the Golden Wes

Andrea Bocelli @ 60

Celebrate the world-renowned tenor with a concert spotlighting his popular music and opera repertoire including the duet

Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration

The songs of legendary singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell’s are among the most sublime musical landscapes of human emotio

Birgit Nilsson: A League of Her Own

Celebrate the life of Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson, the face of opera in the late 1950s-70s. This new documentary show

Great Performances at the Met: Samson et Dalila

Watch Saint-Saëns’s biblical epic based on the tale of Samson and Delilah from the Book of Judges. Starring tenor Rob

Julius Caesar from Donmar

Set in a women’s prison, Great Performances: Julius Caesar offers a powerful dramatization of the catastrophic consequ

Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata

See Michael Mayer’s richly textured production of Verdi’s classic opera, starring soprano Diana Damrau as the tragic

Great Performances at the Met: Adriana Lecouvreur

Watch Cilea’s classic opera starring Anna Netrebko in the title role of the real-life French actress who dazzled 18th-

Great Performances at the Met: Carmen

Watch Sir Richard Eyre’s production of Bizet’s masterpiece starring Clémentine Margaine reprising her role as opera

Great Performances at the Met: La Fille du Régiment

Watch Donizetti’s romantic comedy about a budding military relationship starring Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena in a

Great Performances at the Met: Die Walküre

Experience a Wagnerian event for the ages starring Christine Goerke as the willful warrior Brünnhilde alongside Stuart

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2019

Enjoy the world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic’s annual concert from Schönbrunn Palace with guest conductor Gustavo Dud

Great Performances at the Met: Dialogues Des Carmélites

Watch John Dexter’s production of the Poulenc classic about the power of faith, starring Isabel Leonard as Blanche and

Now Hear This “Vivaldi: Something Completely Different”

Join Scott Yoo, renowned violinist and conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic, in Now Hear This, a new four-part docu

Now Hear This “The Riddle of Bach”

Scott Yoo goes to Germany to learn Bach’s sonatas and partitas, widely considered among the greatest works ever writte

Now Hear This “Scarlatti: Man Out of Time”

Join Scott Yoo in Spain and Morocco to discover the greatest composer you’ve never heard of: Domenico Scarlatti. He wa

Now Hear This “Handel: Italian Style”

Before becoming the most famous composer of his time, Handel gained a lifetime of experience in Italy. Welcomed by wealt

GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends® 2019

In collaboration with the Recording Academy™, Great Performances presents GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends®, the fourth

42nd Street

The 1981 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, 42nd Street is the song-and-dance, American dream fable of Broadway, featur

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I

Kelli O’Hara and Ken Watanabe star in a Tony Award-winning revival of the beloved musical about a British schoolteache

Red

Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant—and the growing competitive presence of a new generation of artists—R

Much Ado About Nothing

For the first time in over four decades, Great Performances presents a Public Theater production recorded live at Free S

Kinky Boots

Rejoice with the Tony Award-winning high-heeled hit musical with songs by pop icon Cyndi Lauper and a book by Broadway l

Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert

Judas, as played by Brandon Victor Dixon, wows with dance moves and an unforgettable rendition of "Superstar."

An Intimate Evening with David Foster

Enjoy a star-studded concert with celebrated 16-time GRAMMY Award winner David Foster as he explores the music of his ca

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2020

Celebrate 2020 with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Musikverein. Under the baton of guest conductor Andris Nelsons and fe

Great Performances at the Met: Manon

Manon prepares to enter a convent when she's struck by love at first sight with Chevalier des Grieux. It's unclear if he

Movies for Grownups Awards 2020 with AARP The Magazine

Watch actors and filmmakers as they are honored for creating films that resonate with older viewers in this star-studded

Great Performances at the Met: Madama Butterfly

Soprano Hui He plays the tragic title role with tenor Bruce Sledge as the naval officer who abandons her in Puccini’s

Great Performances at the Met: Turandot

In an ancient mythical China, three riddles dictate who wins Turandot's heart and who loses their lives. Calàf is one o

Great Performances at the Met: Akhnaten

Experience composer Philip Glass’ visionary masterpiece portraying the impact of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhnaten as he r

Andrea Bocelli: Music for Hope, A Great Performances Special

Experience iconic Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli in an Easter Sunday concert from Milan’s historic cathedral. With the c

Great Performances at the Met: Wozzeck

Experience artist William Kentridge’s interpretation of Berg’s tragic opera set in an apocalyptic pre-World War I en

LA Phil 100

Celebrate the centennial of this landmark orchestra with “La Valse” by Ravel, Stravinsky’s “Firebird” and more

Leonard Bernstein's Mass

Enjoy Ravinia Festival’s production of Leonard Bernstein’s musical starring Tony Award-winning baritone Paulo Szot a

Great Performances at the Met: Agrippina

Experience Handel’s black comedy of intrigue and impropriety in this production from David McVicar set in the present.

Ann

Enjoy a powerful and revealing look at legendary, larger-than-life Texas governor Ann Richards who enriched the lives of

Gloria: A Life

Experience playwright Emily Mann’s unique interpretation of feminist icon Gloria Steinem’s life, performed by an all

Great Performances at the Met: Der Fliegende Holländer

Experience Wagner’s eerie early masterpiece telling the tale of the sea captain cursed to sail for eternity. François

Great Performances at the Met: The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

Enjoy this classic American folk opera that brings 1920s Charleston to life with a beloved score from George Gershwin in

Great Performances at the Met: Tosca

Sir David McVicar’s new production of Puccini’s classic stars Sonya Yoncheva, Vittorio Grigolo and Željko Lučić.

Great Performances at the Met: Maria Stuarda

The first-ever Met production of Donizetti’s opera stars Joyce DiDonato as Mary, Queen of Scots with South African sop

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2020

Enjoy the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance of selections by Strauss, Wagner, Offenbach, Puccini and more fr

Romeo and Juliet

Experience a ballet of Shakespeare’s classic from choreographer Kenneth MacMillan performed by dancers from The Royal

Now Hear This “Haydn: King of Strings”

Explore the work of famed composer Joseph Haydn’s career with host Scott Yoo and featured guest artists as he discover

Now Hear This “The Schubert Generation”

Celebrate the work of Franz Schubert with host Scott Yoo as he plays with young musicians establishing themselves in Nor

Now Hear This “Becoming Mozart”

Join Scott Yoo, renowned violinist and conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic, in Now Hear This Series 2, a four-part

GRAMMY Salute to Music Legends® 2020

In collaboration with the Recording Academy®, Great Performances presents GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends®, the fifth a

One Man, Two Guvnors

Featuring a Tony Award-winning performance by CBS Late Late Show host James Corden, the hilarious West End and Broadway

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles is the first in-depth documentary that chronicles the story of the international Broadway

Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn

Roundabout Theatre Company’s festive production of Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn – The Broadway Musical returns to G

Lea Salonga in Concert

Captured in peak performance with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Tony Award-winner Lea Salonga performs the beloved song

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2021

Ring in 2021 with host Hugh Bonneville joined by guest conductor Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic performing a

The Magic of Callas

Explore the legacy of superstar Maria Callas in this documentary detailing her 1964 comeback at London’s Royal Opera H

The Magic of Horowitz

Experience legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz’s 1986 Russian homecoming for a sold-out concert of personal favorites,

Great Performances at the Met: Renée Fleming in Concert

Experience the beloved American soprano perform arias by Puccini and Massenet to selections by Handel and Korngold from

Movies for Grownups® Awards 2021 with AARP The Magazine

Watch actors and filmmakers as they are honored for creating films that resonate with older viewers in this star-studded

Great Performances at the Met: Jonas Kaufmann in Concert

The superstar tenor sings a program of classic arias from the Baroque interior of the historic Polling Abbey located in

Beethoven in Beijing

Experience the international impact of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s historic 1973 trip to China, offering a story of c

Romeo & Juliet

This stylized film of Shakespeare’s masterpiece from the National Theatre celebrates the theatrical imagination. In th

Uncle Vanya

Tony Award nominee Conor McPherson breathes new life into Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece with his acclaimed adaptation of

Great Performances at the Met: Lise Davidsen in Concert

The soprano performs arias and songs that brought her success around the world including selections from Wagner’s “T

The Arts Interrupted

Take an inside look at how arts organizations nationwide are surviving the pandemic and how they are maturing during the

Great Performances at the Met: Aleksandra Kurzak & Roberto Alagna in Concert

Recorded in August, the married tenor and soprano duo perform arias and duets from the Château de la Chèvre d’Or per

Andrea Bocelli: Believe

Enjoy the songs of the internationally beloved tenor’s 2020 album recorded on location in Malta. Selections performed

Mick Fleetwood & Friends

Experience an all-star concert honoring the early years of Fleetwood Mac and founding member Peter Green at the London P

Great Performances at the Met: Anna Netrebko in Concert

Recorded in February from the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria, the megastar performs Russian songs by Rachmanin

Great Performances at the Met: Joyce DiDonato in Concert

Experience a new performance by the American mezzo-soprano from the art-nouveau Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum, Germany, fea

Gloria Estefan: Sangre Yoruba

Gloria Estefan journeys through three of Brazil’s most influential cities, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Salvador, wi

Roots of Latin Jazz

Anaadi and the Raíces Jazz Orchestra perform Jorge Ben's classic from his debut album "Samba Esquema Novo," called "Mas

Great Performances at the Met: Diana Damrau & Joseph Calleja in Concert

Don’t miss Diana Damrau and Joseph Calleja’s captivating performance from the spectacular Royal Palace of Caserta.

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Go backstage on Broadway from 1959 to the early 1980s through interviews with theater legends including Carol Burnett, L

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2021

Enjoy the Vienna Philharmonic’s annual summer night concert under the direction of guest conductor Daniel Harding with

Great Performances at the Met: Sonya Yoncheva in Concert

Enjoy the talent of Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva as she performs arias by Verdi, Puccini and more from the Baroque L

Yannick – An Artist’s Journey

Experience the music director of the Metropolitan Opera’s meteoric rise to become one of the most acclaimed and sought

Verdi’s Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11

Honor the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with this special performance hosted by Misty Copeland and led by

The Red Shoes

Experience Hans Christian Andersen’s dark fairytale from acclaimed director-choreographer Matthew Bourne with this Oli

Great Performances at the Met: Sondra Radvanovsky & Piotr Beczala in Concert

From the historic Stadthalle in Wuppertal, Germany, recorded in January, this world-famous soprano-tenor pair perform ar

Great Performances at the Met: Three Divas at Versailles

Three-time GRAMMY winner Isabel Leonard joins Nadine Sierra and Ailyn Pérez to perform timeless selections by Mozart, O

Now Hear This "Beethoven's Ghost"

Go inside the mind of a genius as host Scott Yoo and fellow musicians undertake a recording of Beethoven's most personal

Great Performances at the Met: Wagnerians in Concert

Recorded in May, a quartet of some of opera’s most powerful and dramatic singers comes together at the Hessisches Staa

A John Williams Premiere at Tanglewood

Experience a concert of works by legendary composer John Williams from Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home at Tang

San Francisco Symphony Reopening Night

Celebrate opening night of San Francisco Symphony’s 110th season as it welcomes its new GRAMMY-winning music director

Coppelia

Enjoy this contemporary reboot of the 1870 ballet favorite that blends live-action ballet with CGI and features ballet s

Unforgettable With Love - Natalie Cole

Enjoy this special encore of Natalie Cole’s Emmy-winning concert of her GRAMMY-winning album in Great Performances: Un

Great Performances at the Met: Bryn Terfel & Friends in Concert

Recorded December 2020, the legendary bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel performs a holiday program accompanied by Jeff Howar

Great Performances at the Met: New Year's Eve Gala

The Met rings in the new year with a gala performance featuring stars Angel Blue, Pretty Yende, Javier Camarena and Matt

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2022

Ring in the new year in Austria at the Musikverein with the Vienna Philharmonic and host Hugh Bonneville in this annual

Reopening: The Broadway Revival

Go behind the scenes of Broadway as shows reunite, rehearse and re-stage for their long-awaited reopening nights while t

Great Performances at the Met: Boris Godunov

Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between ambition and p

Great Performances at the Met: Eurydice

The ancient Greek myth of Orpheus, who attempts to harness the power of music to rescue his beloved Eurydice from the Un

Movies for Grownups® Awards 2022 with AARP The Magazine

First broadcast on PBS in 2018, Movies for Grownups Awards with AARP the Magazine returns for a fifth year to celebrate

The Conductor

Follow Marin Alsop’s journey to become the first female music director of a major American symphony despite repeated r

Great Performances at the Met: Fire Shut Up In My Bones

Experience Grammy-winning composer Terence Blanchard and librettist Kasi Lemmon’s adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s me

Now Hear This "Amy Beach - American Romantic"

Host Scott Yoo and his wife, flutist Alice Dade, perform the work of Romantic era classical composer Amy Beach at Festiv

Now Hear This "Florence Price and the American Migration"

From Little Rock to Chicago, host Scott Yoo follows the trail of the great African American composer Florence Price.

Now Hear This "Aaron Copland - Dean of American Music"

Scott Yoo explores the life and work of Aaron Copland, and how he created the American sound.

Now Hear This "New American Voices"

Scott Yoo discovers how American composers are inspired by their immigrant roots today through two composers: Brazilian-

Great Performances at the Met: Cinderella

Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard stars as the rags-to-riches princess in Laurent Pelly’s storybook staging of Massenet’s

Anything Goes

Enjoy this London production of Cole Porter’s classic musical led by Sutton Foster who reprises her Tony-winning role

Merry Wives

Experience Shakespeare’s comedic masterpiece from the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. Set in South Harlem,

Keeping Company with Sondheim

Take an inside look at the reimagined gender-swapped production as it returns to Broadway during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Great Performances at the Met: Rigoletto

Baritone Quinn Kelsey portrays the title role at the Met for the first time, starring alongside soprano Rosa Feola as Gi

Great Performances at the Met: Ariadne Auf Naxos

Soprano Lise Davidsen brings one of her signature roles to the Met for the first time as the mythological Greek heroine

Great Performances at the Met: Don Carlos

For the first time in its history, the Met presents the original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doom

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2022

Enjoy the Vienna Philharmonic’s annual summer night concert with cellist Gautier Capuçon under the direction of guest

Great Performances at the Met: Turandot

Enjoy opera superstar Liudmyla Monastyrska in the title role of the legendary cold-hearted princess. Marco Armiliato con

Black Lucy and The Bard

Explore Shakespeare’s love life through the perspective of the “Dark Lady” in this work from Nashville Ballet base

Intimate Apparel

Experience the story of seamstress Esther who begins writing to a mysterious suitor laboring on the Panama Canal. Featur

Great Performances at the Met: Lucia Di Lammermoor

Soprano Nadine Sierra returns to the stage in one of the most formidable and storied roles, the haunted heroine Lucia di

Great Performances at the Met: Hamlet

Experience this contemporary opera based on Shakespeare’s masterpiece directed by Neil Armfield and composed by Brett

NY Phil Reopening of David Geffen Hall

Celebrate the New York Philharmonic's return to its revitalized home. Under the baton of Music Director Jaap Van Zweden

Josh Groban's Great Big Radio City Show

Get a sneak peek at the concert from Radio City, featuring clips from "The Impossible Dream" and "The Fullest." TV-G

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2023

Celebrate the new year with this annual classical music celebration featuring waltzes by Strauss from the opulent Musikv

Movies for Grownups® Awards 2023 with AARP The Magazine

Iconic and beloved screen and stage performer Alan Cumming returns as host for this awards show in which two-time Golden

The Magic of Spirituals

Glimpse behind the curtain at opera legends Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman’s famed concert at Carnegie Hall on Marc

Remember This

Experience Academy Award nominee David Strathairn as reluctant World War II hero and Holocaust witness, Jan Karski, in t

Great Performances at the Met: The Hours

Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata

Nadine Sierra stars as the opera’s heroine, the self-sacrificing courtesan Violetta, with tenor Stephen Costello in th

Now Hear This “Piazzolla’s History with Tango”

Tango to Buenos Aires, Argentina, with host Scott Yoo and flutist Alice Dade to explore the evolution of composer Astor

Now Hear This “Schumann - Genius and Madness”

Visit Scotland, Germany and France with host Scott Yoo as he investigates the connection between Robert Schumann’s bip

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

Now Hear This “Albéniz - Portraits of Spain”

Discover the inspirations Spain provided composer Isaac Albéniz with host Scott Yoo and Scottish GRAMMY-winning guitari

Great Performances at the Met: Fedora

Back at the Met for the first time in 25 years, Umberto Giordano’s drama stars soprano Sonya Yoncheva in the title rol

Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best

Enjoy a revue of milestone Broadway shows and songs from 1973 to 2023 hosted by two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster

Richard III

Starring Danai Gurira (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “The Walking Dead”) in the title role with Tony Award w

Great Performances at the Met: Medea

Great Performances at the Met raises the curtain on Medea with opera star Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role as the my

Great Performances at the Met: Lohengrin

Back at the Met after 17 years, this production of Wagner’s opera is directed by François Girard with Music Director

Great Performances at the Met: Falstaff

Verdi’s Shakespearean comedy features an ensemble cast in Robert Carsen’s staging, with baritone Michael Volle perfo

Leonard Bernstein's Kaddish Symphony

Performed from Highland Park’s Ravinia Festival, Great Performances presents legendary composer Leonard Bernstein’s

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2023

A beloved summer tradition, Great Performances presents the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s summer night concert from

Great Performances at the Met: Der Rosenkavalier

Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy includes soprano Lise Davidsen as the aging Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel

Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni

Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes his Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the

New York City Ballet in Madrid

Captured in peak performance at Madrid’s Teatro Real, New York City Ballet performs two masterpieces choreographed by

Message In A Bottle

Experience five-time Olivier Award nominee Kate Prince’s dance and theater show set to the songs of 17-time Grammy win

Great Performances at the Met: Champion

Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard returns to the Met with an opera based on the true story of b

Making Shakespeare: The First Folio

Celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, which saved 18 plays from being lost. Tracing the First

Great Performances at the Met: Die Zauberflöte

Experience director Simon McBurney’s Met debut with a new production of this Mozart favorite. Nathalie Stutzmann condu

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2024

Celebrate the New Year with waltzes by Strauss and more performed from Vienna’s Musikverein by the famed orchestra led

Great Performances at the Met: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

Experience Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking opera directed by Tony nominee Robert O’Hara. The new staging portrays Mal

The LA Phil Celebrates Frank Gehry

Celebrate 20 years at Walt Disney Concert Hall with the LA Phil in a tribute to its architect. Led by Gustavo Dudamel, t

George Jones: Still Playin’ Possum

Honoring one of the most influential, storied and beloved country music icons in history, Great Performances – George

Great Performances at the Met: Dead Man Walking

Great Performances at the Met: Florencia en el Amazonas

Now Hear This

Now Hear This

Now Hear This

Now Hear This

Great Performances at the Met: Nabucco

Hamlet

Audra McDonald at the London Palladium

Purlie Victorious

A three-act comedic stage play tells the fictional story of Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson, a dynamic traveling preac

Rodgers & Hammerstein's 80th Anniversary

Émigré: A Musical Drama with the NY Phil

Enjoy this semi-staged oratorio with the New York Philharmonic and an international cast telling the story of Jewish ref

Land of Gold

Explore Peter Sellars' San Francisco Opera production of John Adams' "Girls of the Golden West" set during Gold Rush. Go

Patsy Cline: Walkin' After Midnight

Experience the music of Patsy Cline in a star-studded tribute concert featuring Wynonna and more.

Henry Mancini 100 at the Hollywood Bowl

Celebrate the centennial birthday of composer Henry Mancini with Michael Bublé, Cynthia Erivo, saxophonist Dave Koz, Mo

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2025

Experience this annual beloved concert from the Golden Hall of the Musikverein celebrating the 200th anniversary of the

Movies for Grownups® Awards 2025 with AARP The Magazine

Iconic and beloved screen and stage performer Alan Cumming returns as host for this awards show in which Glenn Close rec

Andrea Bocelli 30th – The Celebration

Experience the world-renowned Italian tenor’s 30th anniversary concert from Tuscany featuring global superstars Ed She

Great Performances at the Met: Grounded

Follow a fighter pilot who operates a drone in a high-tech world battling both war and motherhood. With pressures from e

Now Hear This “Chopin’s Polish Heart”

Follow Scott Yoo and pianist Jan Lisiecki as they explore Chopin’s life, his Polish roots, and his journey to Paris ta

The Magic of Nureyev

Experience Rudolf Nureyev’s revolutionary 1964 production of "Swan Lake" with ballerina Margot Fonteyn through extensi

Great Performances at the Met: Les Contes d’Hoffmann

Benjamin Bernheim performs the title role of the tormented poet for Offenbach’s final work. Hoffmann’s trio of lover

Now Hear This "Boccherini: Night Music"

Join Scott Yoo and musicians on a night tour of Madrid to uncover Boccherini’s deep love for the city and learn how hi

Now Hear This: Rachmaninoff Reborn

Follow Rachmaninoff’s journey from a Russian aristocrat to an American artist after the Bolshevik revolution. Forced t

Now Hear This "Barrios: Chopin of the Guitar"

Explore Agustin Barrios’ journey from rural Paraguay to global recognition as a guitar composer. Despite facing reject

Next to Normal

Experience this Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical directed by Michael Longhurst from London's Donmar Ware

Yellow Face

Enjoy Tony winner David Henry Hwang’s comedy starring Daniel Dae Kim as an Asian American playwright who protests “y

Great Performances at the Met: Tosca

Lise Davidsen stars in the title role alongside Freddie De Tommaso in his company debut as her lover Cavaradossi with Qu

Girl from the North Country

Experience 20 reimagined, legendary Bob Dylan songs including “Forever Young,” “Hurricane,” and “Like A Rollin

Kiss Me, Kate

Enjoy this Cole Porter classic musical featuring iconic songs like “Another Op'nin', Another Show," “So In Love” a

Great Performances at the Met: Aida

Angel Blue makes her highly anticipated Met role debut as Aida, the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country. Me

Great Performances at the Met: Fidelio

In her second role of this season of Great Performances at the Met, Lise Davidsen stars as Leonore, who risks everything

Great Performances at the Met: Le Nozze di Figaro

Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut leading the cast in Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Michael Sumuel is the cle

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2025

The beloved annual concert performed by Vienna Philharmonic takes place in Schönbrunn Palace Park and is conducted for

Great Performances at the Met: Salome

The first new production of the opera at the Met in 20 years, director Claus Guth reimagines the biblical tale through O

The Magic of Grace Bumbry

Discover Grace Bumbry’s inspiring rise to global opera fame. Spotlighting her historic performances, the film explores

Great Performances at the Met: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Rossini’s effervescent comedy retakes the stage in Bartlett Sher’s madcap production. Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a

Tiler Peck: Suspending Time

Follow acclaimed ballerina Tiler Peck as she overcomes injury to reclaim her place on stage and debut her own choreograp

Twelfth Night

The Shakespearean comedy of mistaken identity tells the romantic misadventures of twins Sebastian and Viola after they s

Nutcracker from English National Ballet

Experience the holiday classic in a new light, featuring over 100 dancers and musicians performing at the London Coliseu

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2026

The famed Vienna Philharmonic rings in the New Year with its annual concert from Vienna's Musikverein conducted for the

Movies for Grownups® Awards 2026 with AARP The Magazine

Iconic and beloved screen and stage performer Alan Cumming returns as host for this awards show in which Adam Sandler re

Samara Joy at Royal Albert Hall

A number one album and a double Grammy-win in 2023 put jazz vocalist Samara Joy on the map, officially establishing the

Great Performances at the Met: La Bohème

Experience Zeffirelli’s beloved production set in 19th-century Paris telling the story of Puccini’s young artists an

Great Performances at the Met: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

In this new adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel set shortly before the outbreak of World War

Now Hear This – “Brahms: Free But Alone”

Johannes Brahms was a quiet, private person, but he lived a full life, bearing a responsibility he didn’t want, a woma

Great Performances at the Met: La Sonnambula

Nadine Sierra stars as Amina in Bellini’s tale of love lost and found. This new production by Rolando Villazón—the

Now Hear This – “Everyone Loves Joplin”

Scott Joplin was the king of ragtime, a new kind music for the turn of the 20th century. Rick Benjamin’s Paragon Ragti

Now Hear This – “The Call of Istanbul”

Istanbul sits at the crossroads of Asia and Europe, a melting pot of diverse peoples, languages and ideas. With star Tur

Now Hear This – “The Iceland Sound”

Fewer people live in Iceland than in Wichita, Kansas, yet it produces some of the best musicians in the world. To find o

Josh Groban: An Intimate Evening at The Union Chapel

Josh Groban returns to PBS in a special, personal concert staged in the intimate and historic setting of London’s Unio

Suffs

Created by Tony Award winner Shaina Taub, this musical recorded from Broadway tells the story of the American suffragist

Irving Berlin’s Top Hat

Inspired by the iconic 1935 movie musical starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, this acclaimed Chichester Festival Th

Great Performances at the Met: Arabella

Strauss’ romance brings the glamour of 19th-century Vienna to the Met stage in a production by legendary Otto Schenk.

An Evening with Nicole Scherzinger

Recorded in October 2025, Nicole Scherzinger performs at London’s Royal Albert Hall for the first time in her first ma

Great Performances at the Met: Andrea Chénier

Giordano’s tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of th

Great Performances at the Met: I Puritani

Charles Edwards makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer, while soprano Lisette Oropes

Great Performances at the Met: Eugene Onegin

Soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in Tchaikovsky’s opera adaptation