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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 E3

1h 23m / TV-PG

Reopening: The Broadway Revival Preview

30s

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.

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2022 Preview

30s

Ring in the new year in Austria at the Musikverein with the Vienna Philharmonic and host Hugh Bonneville in this annual concert of waltzes by Strauss and more under the baton of guest conductor Daniel Barenboim.

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

30s

The Met rings in the new year with a gala performance featuring stars Angel Blue, Pretty Yende, Javier Camarena and Matthew Polenzani. Performing from the Parktheater in Kurhaus Göggingen in Augsburg, Germany, the program features arias, duets and ensembles from Donizetti to Puccini, as well as arrangements of operetta and Neapolitan songs.

Excerpts from Great Performances at the Met: New Year's Eve

5m 45s

Watch Met stars Angel Blue, Pretty Yende, Javier Camarena and Matthew Polenzani sing highlights from Great Performances at the Met: New Year's Eve Gala. Performing from the Parktheater in Kurhaus Göggingen in Augsburg, Germany, the program features arias, duets and ensembles from Donizetti to Puccini, as well as arrangements of operetta and Neapolitan songs.

GP at the Met: Bryn Terfel & Friends in Concert Preview

30s

Recorded December 2020, the legendary bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel performs a holiday program accompanied by Jeff Howard on piano and the Welsh traditional folk group Calan from Brecon Cathedral in the singer’s native Wales.

Unforgettable With Love - Natalie Cole Preview

30s

Enjoy this special encore of Natalie Cole’s Emmy-winning concert of her GRAMMY-winning album in Great Performances: Unforgettable With Love - Natalie Cole. Featuring classics such as “Mona Lisa,” “The Very Thought of You” and “For Sentimental Reasons,” the concert also features a special performance of Nat King Cole’s signature song “Unforgettable” sung as a duet by Natalie Cole and her father.

Behind the Curtain | Coppelia

2m 59s

Go behind the curtain on the set of "Coppelia" with Michaela DePrince as she talks about what the role of Swan means to her and how this production reimagines "Coppelia" for a modern audience through the use of green-screen technology.

San Francisco Symphony Performs with esperanza spalding

3m 40s

Watch esperanza spalding and the San Francisco Symphony perform Wayne Shorter's "Gaia." Originally commissioned specifically for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, "Gaia" was created to spotlight esperanza spalding, who also wrote the libretto for the piece. The word "Gaia" is a reference to the Greek goddess of Earth.

San Francisco Symphony Reopening Night Preview

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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.

Collaborating on San Francisco Symphony's Reopening Night

3m 5s

Alonzo King, esperanza spalding & Esa-Pekka Salonen discuss the role of collaboration while creating San Francisco Reopening Night along with its empowering and creative nature.

A John Williams Premiere at Tanglewood Preview

30s

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.

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