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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 E13

54m 23s / TV-G

GP at the Met: Nixon in China

32s / TV-PG

The Metropolitan Opera's premiere production of John Adams' Nixon in China, conducted by the composer and staged by internationally acclaimed director Peter Sellars, will air in primetime on THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the Met Wednesday, June 1 at 9:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). In New York, THIRTEEN will present an encore broadcast on Sunday, June 5 at 12:30 p.m.

Jackie Evancho: Dream with Me in Concert

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Jackie is the youngest star in Great Performances' recent Hitman Returns: David Foster & Friends concert, performing virtuoso interpretations of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Pie Jesu" and Puccini's "O Mio Babbino Caro." David Foster will co-host the solo concert debut of the 10-year-old girl with the extraordinary soprano voice. The Great Performances special will air in June on PBS stations.

Carnegie Hall 120th Anniversary Concert

32s / TV-G

On May 5, 2011, Carnegie Hall commemorated its 120th anniversary with a gala concert featuring Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic and special guests Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, and Audra McDonald. Carnegie Hall 120th Anniversary Concert - featuring the works of Beethoven, Ellington, Dvorak, and Gershwin - will air on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 from 8-9:30 p.m. (check local listings).

Iphigenie en Tauride

30s / TV-PG

Gluck's rarely performed masterpiece, Iphigenie en Tauride, starring Susan Graham, Placido Domingo and Paul Groves, will air on THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the Met Sunday, May 29 at 12 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). Patrick Summers conducts the revival of the Metropolitan Opera's much-lauded production by Stephen Wadsworth.

GP at the Met: La Fanciulla del West

31s / TV-G

The Metropolitan Opera's production of La Fanciulla del West, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the opera's 1910 world premiere at the Met, will air April 24 at 12 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). Deborah Voigt sings the role of Minnie, with Marcello Giordani as Dick Johnson (the disguised bandit Ramerrez) and Lucio Gallo as the villainous sheriff Jack Rance.

GP at the Met: Don Carlo

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The Metropolitan Opera's new production of Verdi's Don Carlo will air on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, April 3 at 12 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). The production is conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin, directed by Nicholas Hytner, and is starring Roberto Alagna, Marina Poplavskaya, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Simon Keenlyside, and Eric Halfvarson.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Pierre Boulez Conducts Mahler

30s

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conductor Emeritus Pierre Boulez leads the Windy City's internationally renowned orchestra in Gustav Mahler's "Symphony No. 7." The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has announced that Music Director Riccardo Muti must withdraw from fall performances due to illness. The change in conductor necessitated the change in the evening’s program to Mahler's Symphony No. 7.

Billy Joel performs "Captain Jack" at Shea Stadium

7m 17s / TV-PG

Shortly before the demolition of New York City's Shea Stadium in July 2008, superstar Billy Joel electrified audiences with two memorable concerts at the historic arena. Watch him perform the 1973 classic "Captain Jack" in that concert.

Billy Joel: Live at Shea Stadium

30s / TV-G

Shortly before the demolition of New York City's Shea Stadium in July 2008, Billy Joel electrified audiences with two memorable concerts at the arena. Joel's special guests included Tony Bennett, Garth Brooks, and Sir Paul McCartney whose 1965 appearance there with the Beatles was so iconic. Hear those songs performed in full in Billy Joel: Live at Shea Stadium airing March on Great Performances.

Billy Joel performs "Piano Man" at Shea Stadium

5m 55s / TV-G

Chosen as the last rock act to play the venue, Billy Joel staged his "Last Play at Shea" concerts on July 16 and July 18, 2008, rocking a combined audience of 110,000 fans with one of the most emotionally charged shows ever played at the historic stadium. Watch him perform his classic anthem "Piano Man" at this historic concert.

Harry Connick Jr., In Concert on Broadway - Preview

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Taped in July of 2010 at New York's Neil Simon Theater, Harry Connick, Jr. in Concert on Broadway features Connick's big band and a 12-piece string section, with the star on both a Steinway grand and upright honky-tonk piano. The program will air Wednesday, March 2 at 9:30 p.m. (check local listings).

Boris Godunov - Preview

31s / TV-G

Adapted from a play by Alexander Pushkin about the extraordinary reign of the 16th-century tsar, Boris Godunov is regarded as one of the masterpieces of the Russian operatic repertoire. The Metropolitan Opera's new production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov starring Rene Pape as Boris and conducted by Valery Gergiev, will air on Sunday, February 13 at 12 p.m. ET (check local listings).

Don Pasquale

30s

Anna Netrebko revives her sensational turn in this sophisticated bel canto comedy, opposite Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, and John Del Carlo in the title role. Met Music Director James Levine conducts. When Otto Schenk's production premiered in 2006, the New York Times acclaimed it as "brilliant" and "wonderful."

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2011 - Preview

30s / TV-G

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2011, featuring the much-loved melodies of the Strauss Family, will air Saturday, January 1 at 8 p.m. (check local listings). News veteran Paula Zahn will cover for stage and screen legend Julie Andrews as host of the festive annual New Year's celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of Franz Welser-Moest from Vienna's Musikverein.

Celebracion! Dudamel, Florez, and the L.A. Phil Preview

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THIRTEEN's Great Performances spotlights the October 7 opening night concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music Director Gustavo Dudamel featuring renowned Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Actress Eva Mendes hosts the broadcast. The program will air Wednesday, December 29, 2010 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings).

San Francisco Ballet's Nutcracker Preview

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Introduced by Olympic champion figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi, a native of the Bay Area and winner of 2008's Dancing with the Stars, the production encores in high definition and 5.1 surround sound. San Francisco Ballet Music Director and Principal Conductor Martin West conducts Tchaikovsky's sprightly score. Recorded in December 2007, the work is choreographed by Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson.

"Move On" from Sondheim! The Birthday Concert

4m 27s

Watch broadway veterans Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin perform "Move On" from Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George with the New York Philharmonic for Sondheim's 80th birthday celebration. The two-hour concert, Sondheim! The Birthday Concert will air on PBS's Great Performances Wednesday, November 24 at 9 p.m. (check local listings).

Sondheim! The Birthday Concert - Preview

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Performed on Sondheim's 80th birthday in March 2010, Great Performances presents the New York Philharmonic's salute to a true Broadway legend on November 24. Hosted by David Hyde Pierce, gathering to celebrate are acclaimed Sondheim alumni as Laura Benanti, Michael Cerveris, Victoria Clark, Joanna Gleason, Nathan Gunn, Patti LuPone, Marin Mazzie, Audra McDonald, Bernadette Peters, and many more.

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