Episode guide
Great Performances: Season 50
24 episodes · premiered Sep 16, 2022
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- Episode 1: Black Lucy and The Bard Sep 16, 2022 · 1h 25m Explore Shakespeare’s love life through the perspective of the “Dark Lady” in this work from Nashville Ballet based on poetry by Caroline Randall Williams and featuring an original score…
- Episode 2: Intimate Apparel Sep 23, 2022 · 2h 14m Experience the story of seamstress Esther who begins writing to a mysterious suitor laboring on the Panama Canal. Featuring music by Ricky Ian Gordon, a libretto by Pulitzer Prize winner…
- Episode 3: Great Performances at the Met: Lucia Di Lammermoor Oct 2, 2022 Soprano Nadine Sierra returns to the stage in one of the most formidable and storied roles, the haunted heroine Lucia di Lammermoor, in a production with new staging by Australian theater…
- Episode 4: Great Performances at the Met: Hamlet Nov 6, 2022 Experience this contemporary opera based on Shakespeare’s masterpiece directed by Neil Armfield and composed by Brett Dean. Starring Allan Clayton in the title role, mezzo-soprano Sarah…
- Episode 5: NY Phil Reopening of David Geffen Hall Nov 4, 2022 · 1h 23m Celebrate the New York Philharmonic's return to its revitalized home. Under the baton of Music Director Jaap Van Zweden the concert features performances from soloists Joélle Harvey…
- Episode 6: Josh Groban's Great Big Radio City Show Nov 25, 2022 · 1h 50m Get a sneak peek at the concert from Radio City, featuring clips from "The Impossible Dream" and "The Fullest." TV-G
- Episode 7: From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2023 Jan 1, 2023 Celebrate the new year with this annual classical music celebration featuring waltzes by Strauss from the opulent Musikverein hosted by PBS favorite Hugh Bonneville.
- Episode 8: Movies for Grownups® Awards 2023 with AARP The Magazine Feb 17, 2023 · 1h 52m 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…
- Episode 9: The Magic of Spirituals Feb 24, 2023 · 55m 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…
- Episode 10: Remember This Mar 13, 2023 · 1h 53m 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…
- Episode 11: Great Performances at the Met: The Hours Mar 17, 2023 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.”
- Episode 12: Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata Apr 2, 2023 Nadine Sierra stars as the opera’s heroine, the self-sacrificing courtesan Violetta, with tenor Stephen Costello in the role of her self-centered lover, Alfredo, with baritone Luca Salsi…
- Episode 13: Now Hear This “Piazzolla’s History with Tango” Apr 7, 2023 Tango to Buenos Aires, Argentina, with host Scott Yoo and flutist Alice Dade to explore the evolution of composer Astor Piazzolla’s work and the music genre itself as it becomes fused with…
- Episode 14: Now Hear This “Schumann - Genius and Madness” Apr 14, 2023 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…
- Episode 15: Now Hear This “Andy Akiho Found (his) Sound” Apr 21, 2023 · 51m Composer Andy Akiho explains to host Scott Yoo how living in New York City shaped his composing and performs his piece “Aka.”
- Episode 16: Now Hear This “Albéniz - Portraits of Spain” Apr 28, 2023 Discover the inspirations Spain provided composer Isaac Albéniz with host Scott Yoo and Scottish GRAMMY-winning guitarist David Russell along with musicians from Albéniz’s birthplace in…
- Episode 17: Great Performances at the Met: Fedora May 7, 2023 Back at the Met for the first time in 25 years, Umberto Giordano’s drama stars soprano Sonya Yoncheva in the title role, a 19th-century Russian princess who falls in love with her fiancé’s…
- Episode 18: Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best May 12, 2023 Enjoy a revue of milestone Broadway shows and songs from 1973 to 2023 hosted by two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster. Features performances by André De Shields, Chita Rivera, Vanessa…
- Episode 19: Richard III May 19, 2023 Starring Danai Gurira (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “The Walking Dead”) in the title role with Tony Award winner Ali Stroker (“Oklahoma!”) as Anne, Tony Award nominee Robert O’Hara…
- Episode 20: Great Performances at the Met: Medea Jun 16, 2023 Great Performances at the Met raises the curtain on Medea with opera star Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role as the mythic sorceress who stops at nothing in her quest for vengeance. This…
- Episode 21: Great Performances at the Met: Lohengrin Jul 9, 2023 Back at the Met after 17 years, this production of Wagner’s opera is directed by François Girard with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting. Tenor Piotr Beczała leads the cast in…
- Episode 22: Great Performances at the Met: Falstaff Aug 6, 2023 Verdi’s Shakespearean comedy features an ensemble cast in Robert Carsen’s staging, with baritone Michael Volle performing in his first Verdi role at the Met as the knight Falstaff…
- Episode 23: Leonard Bernstein's Kaddish Symphony Aug 21, 2023 Performed from Highland Park’s Ravinia Festival, Great Performances presents legendary composer Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish symphony featuring the talent of Uniting Voices (formerly…
- Episode 24: Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2023 Aug 25, 2023 A beloved summer tradition, Great Performances presents the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s summer night concert from Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace Gardens. Focusing on musical works from…