Episode guide
Great Performances: Season 51
22 episodes · premiered Sep 10, 2023
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- Episode 1: Great Performances at the Met: Der Rosenkavalier Sep 10, 2023 Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy includes soprano Lise Davidsen as the aging Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover Octavian and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the…
- Episode 2: Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni Oct 1, 2023 Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes his Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural…
- Episode 3: New York City Ballet in Madrid Oct 27, 2023 · 1h 25m Captured in peak performance at Madrid’s Teatro Real, New York City Ballet performs two masterpieces choreographed by NYCB co-founder and original Artistic Director George Balanchine…
- Episode 4: Message In A Bottle Nov 3, 2023 · 1h 26m Experience five-time Olivier Award nominee Kate Prince’s dance and theater show set to the songs of 17-time Grammy winner Sting. Telling the story of a migrant family, the show from…
- Episode 5: Great Performances at the Met: Champion Nov 5, 2023 Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard returns to the Met with an opera based on the true story of boxer Emile Griffith, who rose from obscurity to become a world…
- Episode 6: Making Shakespeare: The First Folio Nov 17, 2023 · 1h 54m Celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, which saved 18 plays from being lost. Tracing the First Folio’s story, the film also spotlights how New York City’s Public…
- Episode 7: Great Performances at the Met: Die Zauberflöte Dec 10, 2023 Experience director Simon McBurney’s Met debut with a new production of this Mozart favorite. Nathalie Stutzmann conducts with Lawrence Brownlee as Tamino, Erin Morley as Pamina, Thomas…
- Episode 8: From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2024 Jan 1, 2024 Celebrate the New Year with waltzes by Strauss and more performed from Vienna’s Musikverein by the famed orchestra led by guest conductor Christian Thielemann. PBS favorite Hugh Bonneville…
- Episode 9: Great Performances at the Met: The Life and Times of Malcolm X Feb 4, 2024 Experience Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking opera directed by Tony nominee Robert O’Hara. The new staging portrays Malcolm as an Everyman whose story transcends time and space. Supported by…
- Episode 10: The LA Phil Celebrates Frank Gehry Feb 16, 2024 · 1h 25m Celebrate 20 years at Walt Disney Concert Hall with the LA Phil in a tribute to its architect. Led by Gustavo Dudamel, the concert includes a piece composed and conducted by Esa-Pekka…
- Episode 11: George Jones: Still Playin’ Possum Feb 23, 2024 · 1h 25m Honoring one of the most influential, storied and beloved country music icons in history, Great Performances – George Jones: Still Playin’ Possum is an all-star celebration. Jones’ hits…
- Episode 12: Great Performances at the Met: Dead Man Walking Mar 15, 2024
- Episode 13: Great Performances at the Met: Florencia en el Amazonas Apr 7, 2024
- Episode 14: Now Hear This Apr 12, 2024
- Episode 15: Now Hear This Apr 19, 2024
- Episode 16: Now Hear This Apr 26, 2024
- Episode 17: Now Hear This May 3, 2024
- Episode 18: Great Performances at the Met: Nabucco May 5, 2024
- Episode 19: Hamlet May 10, 2024 · 2h 34m
- Episode 20: Audra McDonald at the London Palladium May 17, 2024 · 1h 23m
- Episode 21: Purlie Victorious May 24, 2024 · 1h 46m A three-act comedic stage play tells the fictional story of Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson, a dynamic traveling preacher returning to his hometown in rural Georgia, to save his small…
- Episode 22: Rodgers & Hammerstein's 80th Anniversary May 31, 2024 · 1h 56m