Great Performances - Season 50

Season 50
Episodes

Black Lucy and The Bard

Don Carlos

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2022

Turandot

Black Lucy and the Bard

Intimate Apparel

Josh Groban's Great Big Radio City Show

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2023
Ring in the new year with Vienna Philharmonic's annual concert from the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna. Guest conducted for the third time by Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, the program features many selections never before played at these traditional concerts, including works by Josef Strauss, Joseph Hellmesberger Jr., Johann Strauss Jr., and more. PBS favorite Hugh Bonneville returns as host for a sixth year. The broadcast also features performances by Vienna Boys and Girls Choirs and the Vienna State Ballet, with choreography by Ashley Page.

Movies for Grownups with AARP the Magazine
Iconic and beloved screen and stage performer Alan Cumming returns as host for this awards show in which two-time Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Jamie Lee Curtis receives the Career Achievement Award.

The Magic of Spirituals
Glimpse behind the curtain at opera legends Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman's famed concert at Carnegie Hall on March 18, 1990, featuring performance clips and new interviews with opera star Angel Blue, Met Opera General Manager Peter Gelb and more.

Remember This
Experience Academy Award nominee David Strathairn as reluctant World War II hero and Holocaust witness, Jan Karski, in this one-man true story of moral courage and individual responsibility.

Great Performances at the Met - The Hours
Renée Fleming makes her return to the Met with Kelli O'Hara and Joyce DiDonato in this new opera from a Pulitzer Prize–winning composer inspired by Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway."

Now Hear This: Piazzolla's History With Tango
Exploring the evolution of the tango music genre and composer Astor Piazzolla's work in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Now Hear This: Schumann: Genius and Madness
Visit Scotland, Germany and France with host Scott Yoo as he investigates the connection between Robert Schumann's bipolar disorder and creative genius via experts, musical performances and examining the work of other artists outside world of music.

Now Hear This: Andy Akiho Found (his) Sound
Japanese American composer Andy Akiho creates music using found instruments; developing a music video.

Now Hear This : Albeniz: Portraits of Spain
A look at the musical inspirations that Spain provided composer Isaac Albéniz with Scottish guitarist David Russell, along with musicians from Albéniz's birthplace in the Pyrenees mountains.

Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best

Richard III

at the Met - Medea
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