Episode guide
Great Performances: Season 49
33 episodes · premiered Sep 3, 2021
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- Episode 1: Yannick – An Artist’s Journey Sep 3, 2021 · 1h 51m Experience the music director of the Metropolitan Opera’s meteoric rise to become one of the most acclaimed and sought-after music directors of his generation in this documentary from…
- Episode 2: Verdi’s Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11 Sep 11, 2021 · 1h 30m Honor the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with this special performance hosted by Misty Copeland and led by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin featuring soloists Ailyn…
- Episode 3: The Red Shoes Sep 17, 2021 · 1h 38m Experience Hans Christian Andersen’s dark fairytale from acclaimed director-choreographer Matthew Bourne with this Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation starring Ashley Shaw, Adam Cooper…
- Episode 4: Great Performances at the Met: Sondra Radvanovsky & Piotr Beczala in Concert Oct 1, 2021 From the historic Stadthalle in Wuppertal, Germany, recorded in January, this world-famous soprano-tenor pair perform arias and duets from some of their many performances at the Met…
- Episode 5: Great Performances at the Met: Three Divas at Versailles Oct 8, 2021 Three-time GRAMMY winner Isabel Leonard joins Nadine Sierra and Ailyn Pérez to perform timeless selections by Mozart, Offenbach and Bizet including “Voi che sapete” and “Belle nuit, ô nuit…
- Episode 6: Now Hear This "Beethoven's Ghost" Oct 29, 2021 · 55m Go inside the mind of a genius as host Scott Yoo and fellow musicians undertake a recording of Beethoven's most personal music at a historic Berkshires manor to explore the composer’s…
- Episode 7: Great Performances at the Met: Wagnerians in Concert Nov 5, 2021 Recorded in May, a quartet of some of opera’s most powerful and dramatic singers comes together at the Hessisches Staatstheater in Wiesbaden, Germany. Sopranos Christine Goerke and Elza…
- Episode 8: A John Williams Premiere at Tanglewood Nov 12, 2021 · 1h 25m Experience a concert of works by legendary composer John Williams from Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home at Tanglewood including Williams’ new violin concerto performed by virtuoso…
- Episode 9: San Francisco Symphony Reopening Night Nov 19, 2021 · 1h 22m Celebrate opening night of San Francisco Symphony’s 110th season as it welcomes its new GRAMMY-winning music director Esa-Pekka Salonen, featuring music by John Adams, esperanza spalding &…
- Episode 10: Coppelia Nov 26, 2021 · 1h 17m Enjoy this contemporary reboot of the 1870 ballet favorite that blends live-action ballet with CGI and features ballet stars Michaela DePrince and Daniel Camargo.
- Episode 12: Unforgettable With Love - Natalie Cole Nov 27, 2021 · 1h 3m Enjoy this special encore of Natalie Cole’s Emmy-winning concert of her GRAMMY-winning album in Great Performances: Unforgettable With Love - Natalie Cole. Featuring classics such as “Mona…
- Episode 13: Great Performances at the Met: Bryn Terfel & Friends in Concert Dec 3, 2021 Recorded December 2020, the legendary bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel performs a holiday program accompanied by Jeff Howard on piano and the Welsh traditional folk group Calan from Brecon…
- Episode 14: Great Performances at the Met: New Year's Eve Gala Dec 31, 2021 The Met rings in the new year with a gala performance featuring stars Angel Blue, Pretty Yende, Javier Camarena and Matthew Polenzani. Performing from the Parktheater in Kurhaus Göggingen…
- Episode 15: From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2022 Jan 1, 2022 Ring in the new year in Austria at the Musikverein with the Vienna Philharmonic and host Hugh Bonneville in this annual concert of waltzes by Strauss and more under the baton of guest…
- Episode 16: Reopening: The Broadway Revival Jan 18, 2022 · 54m Go behind the scenes of Broadway as shows reunite, rehearse and re-stage for their long-awaited reopening nights while the theater industry learns how to turn the lights back on after its…
- Episode 17: Great Performances at the Met: Boris Godunov Feb 6, 2022 Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between ambition and paranoia. Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads Mussorgsky’s Russian…
- Episode 18: Great Performances at the Met: Eurydice Mar 6, 2022 The ancient Greek myth of Orpheus, who attempts to harness the power of music to rescue his beloved Eurydice from the Underworld, has inspired composers since opera’s earliest days. With a…
- Episode 19: Movies for Grownups® Awards 2022 with AARP The Magazine Mar 18, 2022 First broadcast on PBS in 2018, Movies for Grownups Awards with AARP the Magazine returns for a fifth year to celebrate and encourage filmmaking with unique appeal to movie-lovers with a…
- Episode 20: The Conductor Mar 25, 2022 · 1h 25m Follow Marin Alsop’s journey to become the first female music director of a major American symphony despite repeated rejection by the classical music industry. Features archival footage…
- Episode 21: Great Performances at the Met: Fire Shut Up In My Bones Apr 1, 2022 Experience Grammy-winning composer Terence Blanchard and librettist Kasi Lemmon’s adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s memoir. James Robinson and Camille A. Brown co-direct with Brown also…
- Episode 22: Now Hear This "Amy Beach - American Romantic" Apr 8, 2022 · 54m Host Scott Yoo and his wife, flutist Alice Dade, perform the work of Romantic era classical composer Amy Beach at Festival Mosaic and uncover Beach’s many musical influences. Featuring…
- Episode 23: Now Hear This "Florence Price and the American Migration" Apr 15, 2022 · 55m From Little Rock to Chicago, host Scott Yoo follows the trail of the great African American composer Florence Price.
- Episode 24: Now Hear This "Aaron Copland - Dean of American Music" Apr 22, 2022 · 55m Scott Yoo explores the life and work of Aaron Copland, and how he created the American sound.
- Episode 25: Now Hear This "New American Voices" Apr 29, 2022 · 55m Scott Yoo discovers how American composers are inspired by their immigrant roots today through two composers: Brazilian-born Sergio Assad and Indian American Reena Esmail.
- Episode 26: Great Performances at the Met: Cinderella May 8, 2022 Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard stars as the rags-to-riches princess in Laurent Pelly’s storybook staging of Massenet’s “Cendrillon.” Featuring an all-new English translation by Kelley Rourke…
- Episode 27: Anything Goes May 13, 2022 · 2h 21m Enjoy this London production of Cole Porter’s classic musical led by Sutton Foster who reprises her Tony-winning role as Reno Sweeney directed by Kathleen Marshall with favorite songs like…
- Episode 28: Merry Wives May 20, 2022 · 1h 50m Experience Shakespeare’s comedic masterpiece from the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. Set in South Harlem, the play tells the story of the trickster Falstaff and the wily wives…
- Episode 29: Keeping Company with Sondheim May 27, 2022 · 1h 14m Take an inside look at the reimagined gender-swapped production as it returns to Broadway during the COVID-19 pandemic. Features new interviews with Tony and Grammy-winning cast members…
- Episode 30: Great Performances at the Met: Rigoletto Jun 17, 2022 Baritone Quinn Kelsey portrays the title role at the Met for the first time, starring alongside soprano Rosa Feola as Gilda and tenor Piotr Beczała as the Duke of Mantua. Maestro Daniele…
- Episode 31: Great Performances at the Met: Ariadne Auf Naxos Jul 3, 2022 Soprano Lise Davidsen brings one of her signature roles to the Met for the first time as the mythological Greek heroine of Strauss’ masterpiece.
- Episode 32: Great Performances at the Met: Don Carlos Aug 7, 2022 For the first time in its history, the Met presents the original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doomed love among royalty, set against the backdrop of the Spanish…
- Episode 33: Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2022 Aug 26, 2022 Enjoy the Vienna Philharmonic’s annual summer night concert with cellist Gautier Capuçon under the direction of guest conductor Andris Nelsons at Austria’s Schönbrunn Palace.
- Episode 34: Great Performances at the Met: Turandot Sep 4, 2022 Enjoy opera superstar Liudmyla Monastyrska in the title role of the legendary cold-hearted princess. Marco Armiliato conducts Puccini’s score with tenor Yonghoon Lee as Calàf, the bold…