In this excerpt, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga embody the tenderness and love expressed in the song "Nature Boy." From the live concert television event “Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE!” featuring hits from the duo’s brand new album Cheek to Cheek! The program premieres Friday, October 24 at 9 pm on PBS.

In this concert excerpt, Bennett sings poignant verses from “How Do You Keep the Music Playing?” The Oscar-nominated song with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman first appeared in the film, "Best Friends" (1982). “Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE!” features hits from the duo’s brand new album Cheek to Cheek! The program premieres Friday, October 24 at 9 pm on PBS.

Irving Berlin wrote this song for Top Hat (1935), starring the dream dance pair Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga sing and dance "Cheek to Cheek" in the live concert television event “Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE!” featuring hits from the duo’s new album Cheek to Cheek! The program premieres Friday, October 24 at 9/8c on PBS.

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga do dance a bit in their rendition of this classic song from the film Roberta (1935). This excerpt is from the live concert television event “Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE!” featuring hits from the duo’s new album Cheek to Cheek! The program premieres Friday, October 24 at 9 pm on PBS.

In this very special web exclusive, Lady Gaga performs the Cher hit, “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” from the eagerly anticipated live concert television event “Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE!” featuring hits from the duo’s brand new album Cheek to Cheek! The program premieres Friday, October 24 at 9 pm on PBS.

John Lithgow hosts Star-Spangled Spectacular: Bicentennial of our National Anthem, live from Pier Six Pavilion in Baltimore, MD, on 9/13/14, 8-10 pm ET on PBS. The event, co-hosted by Jordin Sparks, is a highlight of a weeklong celebration. Performers include Kristin Chenoweth, Melissa Etheridge, Denyce Graves-Montgomery, Little Big Town, Pentatonix, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, and Train.

Joyce DiDonato sings Angelina's joyful aria in Rossini's La Cenerentola. See the full opera on Great Performances at the Met: La Cenerentola, airing Sunday, September 7 at noon on PBS (check local listings). Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi conducts. Also starring bel canto master Juan Diego Flórez as the dashing prince.

Joyce DiDonato sings the title role in Rossini’s Cinderella story, La Cenerentola, with bel canto master Juan Diego Flórez as her prince. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads a cast that also includes Pietro Spagnoli as the servant Dandini, Alessandro Corbelli as Cenerentola’s stepfather Don Magnifico, and Luca Pisaroni as Don Ramiro’s tutor, Alidoro, on GP at the Met, Sept. 7, 2014 at noon.

Italian baritone Alessandro Corbelli performs the role of Cenerentola’s stepfather Don Magnifico, and sings the aria "Miei rampolli femminini" from Act I of Rossini's La Cenerentola. This scene includes Rachelle Durkin as Clorinda and Patricia Risley as Tisbe, the daughters of Don Magnifico. GP at the Met: La Cenerentola airs Sunday, September 7, 2014, at noon on PBS.

Neil Sedaka introduces the song "A Yidishe Mame" (A Jewish Mother) and violinist Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Helfgot perform the popular Yiddish classic with Vaudeville roots, backed by The Klezmer Conservatory Band and The Rejoice Chamber Orchestra. Watch "Rejoice with Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot" on Thursday, August 28, 2014, at 9 pm on PBS.

Let the festivities begin as violinist Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot perform the opening song Yism’Khu (They Shall Rejoice) backed by The Klezmer Conservatory Band and The Rejoice Chamber Orchestra. Watch "Rejoice with Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot" on Thursday, August 28, 2014, at 9 pm on PBS.

Legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman and celebrated cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot join forces for a musical exploration of liturgical and traditional works in new arrangements for both chamber orchestra and klezmer settings. The music of “Rejoice” showcases the confluences between the violinist’s famed classical technique and Helfgot’s magnificent voice.

James Levine conducts Mozart’s romance Così fan tutte, a comic opera about the complications that ensue when two friends decide to test their fiancées’ fidelity. Rising Met stars include Susanna Phillips and Isabel Leonard as the sisters; Matthew Polenzani and Rodion Pogossov as their fiancés; and Danielle de Niese as their maid. Airs Aug. 24 at noon on PBS; on Aug. 31 at 12:30 pm on WNET in NY.

Led for the first time by guest conductor Christoph Eschenbach, the world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic performs Richard Stauss' Burleske for Piano and Orchestra with piano virtuoso Lang Lang. Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2014 airs on Great Performances, Friday, August 22 at 9 pm on PBS.

Led for the first time by a guest conductor Christoph Eschenbach, the world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic returns for their 11th open-air concert in the magnificent gardens of Austria’s Imperial Schönbrunn Palace. The concert, featuring piano virtuoso Lang Lang and symphonic poems by Berlioz and Richard Strauss, airs on Great Performances, Friday, August 22 at 9 pm on PBS.

Gustavo Dudamel can describe Verdi's Requiem as passionately as he conducts it. "The theatrical elements of this piece is incredible," he says in this interview that includes rehearsal footage. Using his hands, growls and poetic descriptions, Dudamel conveys the intense emotions of the music. Watch "Dudamel Conducts the Verdi Requiem at The Hollywood Bowl" on Fri. Aug. 1 at 9 pm on PBS.

The acclaimed outdoor performance celebrating the 200th anniversary of Verdi’s birth is interspersed with archival footage and features Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Master Chorale and internationally acclaimed soloists Julianna Di Giacomo, Michelle DeYoung, Vittorio Grigolo and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo. Airs on Great Performances on Friday, August 1 at 9 pm.

Tenor Jonas Kaufmann stars as the tortured poet in the Met’s new production of Jules Massenet’s Werther on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, July 20 at 12 pm on PBS. (In New York, THIRTEEN airs the opera at 12:30 pm). Sophie Koch, a leading interpreter of the role Charlotte, plays opposite Kaufmann after their prior appearances together in Paris and Vienna in same roles.

Franco Zeffirelli’s production of La Bohème, the most-performed opera in Met history, starring Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo and Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais, airs on Great Performances at the Met on Friday, June 27 at 9 pm. Opolais made headlines when she made her company role debut as Mimì with a few hours notice, having sung the title role in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly the night before.

Borodin's Russian epic Prince Igor, performed by the Met for the first time in nearly 100 years, comes to Great Performances at the Met on June 22, 2014. The acclaimed new production by director Dmitri Tcherniakov, in his Met debut, stars Ildar Abdrazakov as the title character, a 12th-century ruler who defended Russia against invading Polovtsian forces.