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Great Performances

Arts and Music Series / 6 Seasons

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.

Watch Latest: S52 E7

1h 30m / TV-G

Now Hear This "Piazzolla's History with Tango" Preview

30s

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

Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata Preview

29s

Nadine Sierra stars as the opera’s heroine, the self-sacrificing courtesan Violetta, with tenor Stephen Costello in the role of her self-centered lover, Alfredo, with baritone Luca Salsi as Alfredo’s disapproving father. Michael Mayer’s vibrant production is conducted by Daniele Callegari. Renée Fleming hosts.

Great Performances at the Met: The Hours Preview

30s

Renée Fleming makes her return to the Met with Kelli O'Hara and Joyce DiDonato in this new opera from a Pulitzer Prize–winning composer inspired by Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway.”

Remembering Jan Karski

19m 52s

“Remembering Jan Karski," is a companion piece to the remarkable film, "Remember This." In a stunning one-man performance, actor David Strathairn portrays Karski, a Polish hero who tried to warn a disbelieving world about Nazi atrocities. Exploring Hate goes behind the scenes to interview the filmmakers and people who knew Karski and examines how his story continues to resonate today.

The Legacy of Jan Karski

1m 15s

Explore the legacy of Jan Karski, who worked with the Polish Underground and risked his life to carry the first eyewitness reports of the Holocaust to the Western world, and ultimately, the Oval Office.

The Magic of Spirituals Preview

30s

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

Why Battle & Norman's Spirituals Concert Mattered to NYC

3m 3s

Novelist and playwright Darryl Pinckney discusses why Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman’s spirituals concert at Carnegie Hall mattered to NYC and the African American community.

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