Great Performances - Season 40

Season 40

Episodes

Rigoletto from Mantua

Great Performances at the Met: Le Comte Ory

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2011

Great Performances at the Met: Capriccio

Great Performances at the Met: Il Trovatore

A Concert for New York

Plácido Domingo: My Favorite Roles

Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk - A Celebration of New Orleans Blues

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2012

Herbie Hancock, Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil Celebrate Gershwin

Let Me Down Easy
Meet a range of individuals who are confronting the price and politics of health, all portrayed by Anna Deavere Smith.

Great Performances at the Met: Anna Bolena

Tony Bennett: Duets II
Featuring his greatest hits, performed by today's biggest stars, Duets II was recorded live in studios from Los Angeles to London, New York to Italy, with Nashville in between. The stunning musical segments are highlighted by insights on the process from the performers, making for an entertaining and fascinating profile of one of the year's most celebrated recordings.

Memphis
Turn back the dial to the 1950s in this Tony Award-winning musical about an interracial couple whose love for music, and each other, is put to the test.

Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall

Great Performances at the Met: Satyagraha

The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater

San Francisco Symphony at 100
Celebrate the San Francisco Symphony's centennial with music director Michael Tilson Thomas and Itzhak Perlman and Lang Lang performing works by Copland, Mendelssohn and Britten.

Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni

Great Performances at the Met: Rodelinda

Great Performances at the Met: Faust

Great Performances at the Met: The Enchanted Island

Great Performances at the Met: Ernani

Twilight: Los Angeles

Jackie Evancho: Music of the Movies

Great Performances at the Met: Manon

Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration
The PBS Arts Summer Festival expands the scope and diversity of the arts on television, with a multi-part weekly series and new original online content that takes viewers across the country and around the world. Award-winning television, film and stage star Anna Deavere Smith ("Nurse Jackie") hosts.

Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2012
Join Gustavo Dudamel and the Vienna Philharmonic in the magnificent gardens of Schönbrunn Palace.

Andrea Bocelli Live in Central Park

The Little Mermaid from San Francisco Ballet

Miami City Ballet Dances Balanchine and Tharp
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