Great Performances (1971)

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Cyrano de Bergerac

Long-nosed Cyrano de Begerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves. Direct...

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June Moon

In a nod to the days of classic American comedy, a 1929's Tin Pan Alley lyricist meets a c...

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

Mr. Holroyd is an alcoholic, abusive miner in pre-WWI England who terrorizes his family. M...

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King Lear

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance...

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The Seagull

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The Most Happy Fella

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Great Performances' 10th Anniversary Celebration

Ellington: The Music Lives On

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Alice in Wonderland

Laurence Olivier: A Life

A multi-award winning biography covering the life and career of actor/director Laurence Ol...

Taking My Turn

The Best of Broadway

Orpheus

Ulysses

The Coronation of Poppea

Doctor Fischer of Geneva

Three by Three

Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music

The Importance of Being Ernest

In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activi...

Early Days

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The Gospel at Colonus (Episode 4)

The legendary gospel musical that transforms Sophocles’ timeless tale of the last days of...

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The Cotton Club Remenbered

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Broadway Sings: The Music of Jule Styne

Musical salute to composer Jule Styne.

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The Music Makers: An ASCAP Celebration of American Music at Wolf Trap

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Richard Burton: In from the Cold

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San Francisco Opera: Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito

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An Evening with Alan Jay Lerner

Musical celebration of the songs of lyricist Alan Jay Lerner.

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Music by Richard Rodgers

Life and work of American composer Richard Rodgers, whose work, in collaboration with Lore...

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A Bowl of Beings

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Suddenly, Last Summer

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Turandot

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The World of Jim Henson

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Les Misérables in Concert

The story of the fall and redemption of Jean Valjean, arrested for stealing some bread for...

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From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1997

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Robert Altman's Jazz '34

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Henry V at Shakespeare's Globe

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the c...

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From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1998

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Frank Sinatra: The Very Good Years

Frank Sinatra's beginnings in Hoboken New Jersey, and how he discovers his passion for sin...

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From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1999

The Rodgers & Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty

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My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies

This film presents highlights of a concert given on 28 September 1998 at Carnegie Hall in...

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From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2000

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Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

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The Great American Songbook

Documentary assembling film clips of musical numbers from songwriters considered significa...

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My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs

This production is a filmed record of a concert given on 16 October 2000 at the City Cente...

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Shaolin: Wheel of Life

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The Merry Widow

From Shtetl to Swing

A collective journey from synagogue choirs to Harlem hot spots, from Yiddish theater to mu...

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Garrison Keillor’s Independence Day Special: A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood

A concert version of the popular radio program.

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Degas and the Dance

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James Taylor: One Man Band

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/james-taylor-one-man-band-introduction/154/

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Bill Irwin: Clown Prince

We Love Ella: A Tribute to the First Lady of Song

April 25, 2007, would have been Ella Fitzgerald's 90th birthday. To celebrate, Great Perfo...

Pavarotti: A Life in Seven Arias

From soccer-playing son of a Modena, Italy, baker to onstage partner of "La Stupenda," wor...

Hitman: David Foster & Friends

Hitman: David Foster & Friends features Foster himself presiding center stage at the keybo...

Domingo, Netrebko & Villazón: Three Stars in Vienna

From its opening vocal salvo, Domingo’s thrilling account of Lehar’s “Gern hab ich die Fra...

Cyrano de Bergerac

David Leveaux’s stylish production, with sumptuous costumes and sets by Gregory Gale and T...

King Lear

2009 Emmy Nominee Ian McKellen recreates his recent stage performance of Shakespeare's tra...

Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood: Live From Madison Square Garden

Long-time friends and former band mates Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood team up for a once-...

Stevie Wonder: Live at Last

Wonder rocketed to stardom at age 12 when he was signed to Motown Records as “Little Stevi...

Chess in Concert

Wicked’s Idina Menzel and Rent’s Adam Pascal join Great Performances favorite, internation...

Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebration: Live from Madison Square Garden

With a career spanning more than half a century, renowned folk artist, political activist,...

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Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Considered the most dynamic young conductor in classical music since Bernstein, 28-year-ol...

Andrea Bocelli & David Foster: My Christmas

Everyone’s favorite “Hitman” David Foster joins Great Performances superstar Andrea Bocell...

Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden

Multi-Grammy-winning phenomenon Michael Bublé returns to public television in Michael Bubl...

Hamlet

Shakespeare's immortal "To be, or not to be" takes on a whole new meaning (and medium) as...

Renee Fleming & Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Shakespeare's immortal "To be, or not to be" takes on a whole new meaning (and medium) as...

Sting: A Winter's Night

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Dance in America NY Export Opus Jazz

Jerome Robbins' urban ballet, set to a jazz score by Robert Prince, was originally perform...

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Pierre Boulez Conducts Mahler

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conductor Emeritus Pierre Boulez leads the Windy City's interna...

Sondheim! The Birthday Concert

Performed on Sondheim's 80th birthday in March 2010, Great Performances presents the New Y...

Celebracion! Dudamel, Florez, and the L.A. Philharmonic

The October 7 opening night concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music Director Gus...

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2011

Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns to host the annual New Year's celebration wi...

Great Performances at the Met: Don Pasquale

Anna Netrebko revives her sensational turn in this sophisticated bel canto comedy, opposit...

Great Performances at the Met: Boris Godunov

Adapted from a play by Alexander Pushkin about the extraordinary reign of the 16th-century...

Hitman Returns: David Foster & Friends

Music “hitman” David Foster returns to Las Vegas with a showstopping show jam packed with...

Harry Connick in Concert on Broadway

Taped in July of 2010 at New York's Neil Simon Theater, Harry Connick, Jr. in Concert on B...

Billy Joel: Live at Shea Stadium

Shortly before the demolition of New York City's Shea Stadium in July 2008, Billy Joel ele...

Great Performances at the Met: Don Carlo

The production is conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin, directed by Nicholas Hytner, and is s...

Great Performances at the Met: La Fanciulla Del West

The Metropolitan Opera's production of La Fanciulla del West, commemorating the 100th anni...

Great Performances at the Met: Iphigenie En Tauride

Gluck's rarely performed masterpiece, Iphigenie en Tauride, starring Susan Graham, Placido...

Carnegie Hall 120th Anniversary Concert

On May 5, 2011, Carnegie Hall commemorated its 120th anniversary with a gala concert featu...

Great Performances at the Met: Nixon in China

The Metropolitan Opera's premiere production of John Adams' Nixon in China, conducted by t...

Crossroads Guitar Festival 3

In June 2010, Eric Clapton gathered the world's most talented guitar players at the third...

Jackie Evancho Dream With Me In Concert

Jackie is the youngest star in Great Performances' recent Hitman Returns: David Foster & F...

Great Performances at the Met: Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor, with French soprano Natalie Dessay in one of her greatest roles as Do...

Rigoletto from Mantua

Directed by Marco Bellocchio, Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto from Mantua stars Placido Domingo...

Great Performances at the Met: Le Cornte Ory

A trio of bel canto stars--Juan Diego Florez, Diana Damrau, and Joyce DiDonato--headline t...

Great Performances at the Met: Capriccio

Renee Fleming sings one of her signature roles, the elegant Countess in Richard Strauss's...

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night 2011

Distinguished conductor Valery Gergiev leads the third annual Vienna Philharmonic Summer N...

Placido Domingo: My Favorite Roles

The great Spanish tenor Placido Domingo looks back on his illustrious career - one which h...

Let Them Talk: A Celebration of New Orleans Blues

An American favorite for his award-winning role in the hit TV series House, the versatile...

Andrea Bocelli: Live in Central Park

Beloved tenor Andrea Bocelli performs a free concert on Central Park's Great Lawn, with th...

The Little Mermaid from San Francisco Ballet

John Neumeier -- director and chief choreographer for Hamburg Ballet -- blends dance, dram...

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2012

Herbie Hancock, Gustavo Dudamel and the LA PHIL Celebrate

Herbie Hancock, Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil Celebrate Gershwin, featuring that classic...

Let Me Down Easy

Anna Deavere Smith's latest production, Let Me Down Easy. The Great Performances productio...

Great Performances at the Met: Anna Bolena

The Metropolitan Opera premiere of Donizetti's Anna Bolena, starring soprano Anna Netrebko...

Tony Bennett: Duets II

Tony Bennett: Duets II features the singer's greatest hits, performed by Bennett and today...

Memphis

Broadway's smash hit musical Memphis, winner of four Tony Awards including Best Musical, B...

Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni

Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads his first Met performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni...

The Thomashefskys

The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater, a celebration of Y...

The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall

The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, a fully-staged, lavish 25th anniversary...

Great Performances at the Met: Satyagraha

Philip Glass's inspirational opera Satyagraha (Sanskrit for "truth force"), in the first r...

San Francisco Symphony at 100

San Francisco Symphony's Centennial Season opening night gala, conducted by Music Director...

Great Performances at the Met: Rodelinda

Renee Fleming reprises one of her most popular interpretations: the title role in Handel's...

Great Performances at the Met: Faust

Three of the opera world’s leading stars—Jonas Kaufmann, Marina Poplavskaya, and René Pape...

Great Performances at the Met: The Enchanted Island

The Enchanted Island is a world premiere work that combines Baroque music with a new, Engl...

Great Performances at the Met: Ernani

Angela Meade, Marcello Giodani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Ferruccio Furlanetto star in Verd...

Great Performances at the Met: Manon

Star soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met performances of the title role in Manon, Ma...

Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration

The concert features the BSO, Boston Pops Orchestra and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra,...

Jackie Evancho: Music of the Movies

THIRTEEN’s Great Performances will present 12-year-old classical crossover prodigy Jackie...

Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata

Acclaimed French soprano Natalie Dessay makes her Met role debut as Violetta, the fallen w...

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2012

Under the baton of the dynamic and electric guest maestro, Gustavo Dudamel, the Vienna Phi...

Great Performances at the Met: Wagner's Dream

Robert Lepage’s acclaimed new production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Paul McCartney's Live Kisses

Paul McCartney’s Live Kisses captures the magical night of February 9 in the City of Angel...

Rod Stewart: Merry Christmas, Baby

Grammy Award®-winning, two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Rod Stewart, hosts his...

Magical Mystery Tour Revisited

Magical Mystery Tour was chock-full of thinly veiled references to psychedelia, anarchy an...

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2013

We continue the cherished tradition of ringing in the New Year with special host Julie And...

Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy

This film explores the unique role of Jewish composers and lyricists in the creation of th...

Paul Simon's Graceland Journey: Under African Skies

An epic journey following Paul Simon back to South Africa, where, decades earlier, he crea...

Great Performances at the Met: L'Elisir d'Amore

Star soprano Anna Netrebko takes center stage as Adina, the irresistible heroine of Gaetan...

Great Performances at the Met: The Tempest

The Tempest, Robert Lepage’s Staging of the English-language Opera Based on Shakespeare’s...

Great Performances at the Met: La Clemenza di Tito

La Clemenza di Tito, Mozart’s final opera seria, with Barbara Frittoli, Elīna Garanča, and...

Great Performances at the Met: Un Ballo in Maschera

The Met’s new production of Un Ballo in Maschera, Verdi's classic drama of political intri...

Great Performances at the Met: Rigoletto

Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) makes his Met debut with a ne...

Great Performances at the Met: Aida

One of the most popular and beloved operas of all time, Aida, in a spectacular staging tha...

Great Performances at the Met: Les Troyens

Fabio Luisi conducts the five-act tragedy, which stars Deborah Voigt as Cassandra, Susan G...

Dancing at Jacob’s Pillow: Never Stand Still

Directed by veteran documentary filmmaker Ron Honsa, "Dancing at Jacob’s Pillow: Never Sta...

Great Performances at the Met: Parsifal

Jonas Kaufmann sings the title role in The Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Parsifa...

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2013

The works of Wagner and Verdi are featured in the beloved concert from Vienna’s Schönbrunn...

Great Performances at the Met: Francesca di Rimini

Eva-Maria Westbroek and Marcello Giordani star in Zandonai’s masterpiece Francesca da Rimi...