Joan Baez Sings 'Forever Young'
Joan Baez sings 'Forever Young,' a song written by Bob Dylan during the Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration at the Beacon Theatre in New York on January 27, 2016.
Joan Baez and David Crosby Sing 'Blackbird'
Joan Baez and David Crosby performed "Blackbird," a song written by Lennon–McCartney, during the Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration at the Beacon Theatre in New York on January 27, 2016.
Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration Preview
A concert with folk music legend Joan Baez and others, celebrating her birthday at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Baez is joined on stage by stars including David Bromberg, Jackson Browne, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Judy Collins, David Crosby, Emmylou Harris, Indigo Girls, Damien Rice, Paul Simon, Mavis Staples, Nano Stern, and Richard Thompson.
GP at the Met: Lulu
Artist William Kentridge directs Alban Berg’s opera Lulu, starring German soprano Marlis Petersen as the irresistible femme fatale. One of the most important and notorious stage works of the 20th century, Lulu is the drama of a young woman who sexually and emotionally dominates a wide range of willing victims, both male and female. Welsh National Opera music director Lothar Koenigs conducts.
GP 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. The Otto Schenk production gets its first Met revival in more than a decade. Johan Botha makes his Met role debut in the titular role; Eva-Maria Westbroek is Elisabeth; Michelle DeYoung is the goddess Venus; Peter Mattei is Wolfram; and Günther Groissböck is the Landgraf.
GP at the Met: Otello (2016) - Preview
Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher’s acclaimed new Met Opera production is led by conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin with Aleksandrs Antonenko in his first Met performance as Otello, the tormented Moor of Venice, with Sonya Yoncheva in her role debut as his innocent wife, Desdemona. eljko Lu?i? is Otello’s sinister rival, Iago. Great Performances at the Met is now in its 10th season.
Anna Netrebko's Solo in GP at the Met: Il Trovatore
Soprano Anna Netrebko appears in her highly anticipated Met role debut as Leonora, the tortured heroine who sacrifices her own life for the love of the Gypsy troubadour in Verdi's opera, Il Trovatore. Netrebko sings Leonora's aria from Act IV --- "D'amor sull'ali rosee" --- at the final dress rehearsal for the Met Opera's Il Trovatore.
Il Trovatore: Anna Netrebko and Dimitri Hvorostovsky Duet
Anna Netrebko (Leonora) and Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Count di Luna) perform the Act IV duet at the final dress rehearsal for Verdi's "Il Trovatore." Leonora offers herself to the count in return for her lover’s life.
GP at the Met: Il Trovatore (2016) - Preview
Soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Yonghoon Lee make their Met role debuts in Verdi's Il Trovatore. Netrebko sings Leonora, the tortured heroine who sacrifices her own life for the love of the Gypsy troubadour, Manrico, played by Yonghoon Lee. Dmitri Hvorostovsky sings Count di Luna, Dolora Zajick sings her signature role of the gypsy Azucena, and tefan Kocán is Ferrando. Marco Armiliato conducts.
Julie Andrews in Vienna: Lusthaus in Prater Park
As part of From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2016, host Julie Andrews visits the Lusthaus cafe in Vienna's Prater park. The Prater grounds were once the hunting grounds of the Habsburg royalty before Emperor Joseph II opened it to the public in 1766. Today the Prater is also home to an amusement park that includes the famous Ferris Wheel built in 1897. Learn about Vienna's most visited site.
From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2016 - Preview
Julie Andrews hosts the annual New Year’s Day celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic from Vienna’s Musikverein, a beloved annual tradition. Maestro Mariss Jansons will conduct the popular concert of melodies by the Strauss Family and their contemporaries. The the Vienna Boys’ Choir and soloists of the Vienna State Ballet also perform. The program airs at 2:30 & 7:30 pm (check local listings).
Andrea Bocelli: Cinema - Song from Life is Beautiful
Andrea Bocelli performs "Sorridi Amore Vai" from the film Life is Beautiful (1997), accompanied by The Adderley School for the Performing Arts Children’s Choir. The film was directed by and starred Roberto Benigni and won Academy Awards for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score, and Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Actor for Benigni's role.
Andrea Bocelli: Cinema - West Side Story's "Maria"
The star tenor Andrea Bocelli sings "Maria" from the hit Broadway musical and film, West Side Story. Leonard Bernstein composed the music and lyrics are by Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.
Andrea Bocelli: Cinema - "Por una Cabeza" Tango Song
Tenor Andrea Bocelli performs the tango song “Por Una Cabeza” from Scent of a Woman (1992). The song, comparing an addiction to horse racing with an attraction to women, was written in 1935 by two men central to tango in Argentina: singer and composer Carlos Gardel and lyricist Alfredo Le Pera. Sharing the stage with Bocelli are tango dancers Paul Karmiryan and Tiffany Maher.
Andrea Bocelli: Cinema - "Mi Mancherai" from Il Postino
Tenor Andrea Bocelli plays piano and sings “Mi Mancherai” (I'll Miss You) from the film Il Postino (1994). The song's music composer Luis Bacalov won the Best Score Award from Italy’s Nastro d’Argento, the equivalent of the Oscars in that country. The film was directed by Michael Radford and starred Massimo Troisi (1953 – 1994) as the simple mail man who discovers poetry.
Andrea Bocelli: Cinema - "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" Duet
Tenor Andrea Bocelli and singer Nicole Scherzinger sing a Spanish-language version of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina," a song originally written for the musical Evita by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The film version based on the musical opened on December 25, 1996, and starred Madonna as Evita Perón. Scherzinger began her career with the Pussycat Dolls and starred in Cats in London.
Andrea Bocelli: Cinema
The international superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli lends his unique voice to a lush symphonic salute to the movies, celebrating some of the greatest celluloid songs and scores of all time written by Italian and Hollywood composers. Hollywood luminaries John Travolta, Ryan O’Neal, Ali MacGraw, and Andy Garcia join Bocelli onstage to speak about the films from which the songs derive.
Chita Rivera and Liza Minnelli in The Rink on Broadway
Chita Rivera co-starred with Liza Minnelli in The Rink, the tenth Kander and Ebb musical collaboration with book by Terrence McNally. It opened February 9, 1984. See Chita Rivera, who won a Tony Award for her role, perform "Chief Cook and Bottle Washer" at her Jazz at Lincoln Center concert and --- in archival footage with her co-star Minnelli --- "The Apple Doesn’t Fall (Very Far From the Tree)".
Chita Rivera: A Lot of Livin’ to Do - Preview
A retrospective of Broadway legend Chita Rivera. Luminaries Dick Van Dyke, John Kander, Carol Lawrence, Ben Vereen, and others pay tribute to the dynamic singer, dancer, and actress. Anita in “West Side Story,” Rosie in “Bye Bye Birdie,” Velma in “Chicago,” — these are just some of the iconic roles created by Rivera. Also see newly filmed songs from Rivera’s concert repertoire.
Chita Rivera: "Nowadays" from Chicago the Musical
In the original Broadway cast of Chicago the Musical, Chita Rivera played Velma Kelly and Gwen Verdon played Roxie Hart. Both were nominated for a Tony Award. "Nowadays," a Roxie Hart song, is also part of a duet between Roxie and Velma. The two Broadway stars were great friends and in Rivera's concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center, she sings the song in tribute to the late Gwen Verdon.
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