Great Performances - Season 44
Season 44
Episodes
Grammy Salute to Music Legends
A concert pays tribute to the 2016 Grammy special merit award recipients Ruth Brown, Celia Cruz, Earth, Wind & Fire, Jefferson Airplane, Herbie Hancock, Linda Ronstadt and Run-DMC.
The Hollow Crown: Henry VI, Part I
War rages and divisions within the English court threaten the crown; the scene is set for civil war.
The Hollow Crown: Henry VI, Part II
Queen Margaret overshadows King Henry; Edward IV takes the throne, but Richard eyes the crown.
The Hollow Crown: Richard III
Edward IV takes the throne, but youngest brother Richard has his eyes on the crown.
From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2017
The Vienna Philharmonic celebrates the New Year with Strauss Family waltzes, accompanied by the Vienna City Ballet; host Julie Andrews.
Bel Canto The Opera
Experience composer Jimmy Lopez and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz' operatic adaptation of Ann Patchett's best-selling novel inspired by a true-life hostage crisis in the 1990s in Lima, Peru, with soprano Danielle de Niese.
New York City Ballet in Paris
The New York City Ballet performs an all-Balanchine program that includes the Walpurgisnacht Ballet and La valse, set to music by Charles Gounod and Maurice Ravel.
New York City Ballet Symphony in C
Enjoy two Balanchine gems: Bizet's Symphony in C, and Sonatine to Ravel music, recorded in Paris.
Dudamel Conducts Tangos Under the Stars with the LA Phil
Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a program featuring Latin tangos.
Young Men
A film about the World War I experience features dancers from the BalletBoyz company.
Alicia Keys - Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Alicia Keys performs in various locations around New York, including the Circle Line harbor tour, the Unisphere in Queens and Harlem's Apollo Theater.
La Traviata
Fifty Years - Ninety Miles: Havana Time Machine
Take a musical journey to Cuba with evocative performances hosted by Raul Malo of the Mavericks.
Grammy Salute to Music Legends 2
Salute Shirley Caesar, Charley Pride, Jimmie Rodgers, Nina Simone, the Velvet Underground and more.
She Loves Me
Enjoy the musical about feuding clerks who are romantic pen pals; with Laura Benanti & Zachary Levi.
Noel Coward's Present Laughter
Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed Live
Experience the 50th anniversary live performance of the band's seminal album, with full orchestra.
In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams
Foo Fighters - Landmarks Live in Concert
Indecent
See Paula Vogel's Tony Award winner that looks at an explosive moment in theatrical history.
Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn - The Broadway Musical
At the Met - Norma
Hear Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato and Joseph Calleja in Bellini's masterpiece.
Nas Live from The Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop
Witness a symphonic rendition of Nas' debut album Illmatic with the National Symphony Orchestra.
Movies for Grownups Awards with Aarp The Magazine
From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2018
GREAT PERFORMANCES continues the cherished tradition of ringing in the new year with the Vienna Philharmonic at the opulent Musikverein, under the baton of Italian conductor and Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti, featuring favorite Strauss Family waltzes accompanied by the dancing of the Vienna State Ballet. This year's program welcomes new host Hugh Bonneville, best known as the Earl of Grantham, Robert Crawley in Masterpiece's global phenomenon, Downton Abbey, for which he received a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy nominations.
The Opera House
Explore the history of the Met Opera's Lincoln Center home and life in 1950s-60s New York City.
Ellis Island: The Dream of America with Pacific Symphony
THIRTEEN's Great Performances and Pacific Symphony, led by music director Carl St.Clair, pay tribute to America's history with a performance of composer Peter Boyer's "Ellis Island: The Dream of America," a Grammy-nominated contemporary classical work celebrating the historic American immigrant experience.
Chicago Voices
Celebrate the city's vibrant music with Renee Fleming, Jessie Mueller, Michelle Williams and more.
Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2018
Enjoy the Vienna Philharmonic's open-air concert led by Valery Gergiev with soprano Anna Netrebko.
The Chris Botti Band in Concert
See Grammy Award-winning trumpeter with vocalist Sy Smith, violinist Caroline Campbell and more.
Grammy Salute to Music Legends 2018
Enjoy an all-star concert honoring Neil Diamond, Tina Turner, Queen, John Williams and more.
The Sound of Music
A U.K. production of "The Sound of Music," the long-running musical about the von Trapp Family Singers and their escape from Austria at the height of Nazism.
Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
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