Season 45

Havana Time Machine

Oct 6, 2017

Great Performances and Latino Public Broadcasting’s VOCES present Havana Time Machine on Friday October 6 at 9PM on PBS. Singer Raul Malo of The Mavericks explores his Cuban heritage in this breakthrough performance documentary. Eliades Och

GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends® 2017

Oct 13, 2017

In collaboration with the Recording Academy®, Great Performances presents Grammy Salute To Music Legends 2017®, the second annual all-star concert offering a spotlight for the Academy’s 2017 Special Merit Awards recipients. The celebration,

She Loves Me

Oct 20, 2017

The celebrated score features favorites such as “Vanilla Ice Cream,” “A Romantic Atmosphere,” “Dear Friend,” and “She Loves Me.” The musical is based on a play by Miklos Laszlo, whose well-known romantic story was the basis for the 1940 Jam

Noël Coward’s Present Laughter

Nov 3, 2017

Noël Coward’s Present Laughter follows a self-obsessed actor in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Juggling his considerable talent, ego and libido, the theater’s favorite leading man suddenly finds himself caught between fawning ingénues, cra

In The Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams

Nov 10, 2017

In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams chronicles the personal stories of composer/lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of In the Heights in the months leading up to its 2008 opening night.

Foo Fighters – Landmarks Live in Concert

Nov 10, 2017

Multi-Grammy-winning rock band Foo Fighters delivers an electrifying, historic performance at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, in the latest installment of Landmarks Live in Concert for GREAT PERFORMANCES. Captured this past July, Foo Fight

Indecent

Nov 17, 2017

The Tony Award-winning play Indecent comes to Great Performances on Friday, November 17 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) as part of the fall Broadway’s Best lineup.

Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn

Nov 24, 2017

The festive Roundabout Theatre Company production of Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn - The Broadway Musical comes to PBS. The musical continues the Great Performances marathon within the Broadway’s Best lineup on PBS.

The Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed Live

Nov 25, 2017

The Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed Live from Great Performances premieres nationwide beginning November 25 on PBS (check local listings). Celebrating the 50th anniversary of their landmark album, The Moody Blues took to the road to perf

Hitman: David Foster & Friends

Nov 25, 2017

David Foster has generated some of the biggest hits in popular music, and collaborated with a veritable “Who’s Who” of superstars in a career spanning more than three decades. In this special encore presentation, Foster’s achievements, incl

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2018

Jan 1, 2018

Great Performances continues the cherished tradition of ringing in the new year with the Vienna Philharmonic with Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti. This year’s program welcomes new host Hugh Bonneville, best known as

Great Performances at the Met: Norma

Jan 26, 2018

Great Performances at the Met Season 12 begins with a new production of Bellini’s masterpiece about a woman scorned, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. Norma stars Sondra Radvanovsky as the titlular druid high priestess, opposite Joyce DiDonato and

Nas Live From the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop

Feb 2, 2018

Two decades after the album’s critically acclaimed release, Nas teamed up with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, to stage a symphonic rendition of “Illmatic,” one of the most revered albums in hip-hop

Movies for Grownups® Awards with AARP the Magazine

Feb 23, 2018

This year’s 17th annual Movies for Grownups® Awards with AARP the Magazine will be broadcast for the first time ever. Co-produced by Great Performances, the awards premiere Friday, February 23 at 9PM on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/g

Great Performances at the Met: Exterminating Angel

Mar 25, 2018

Season 12 of Great Performances at the Met continues on PBS on Sunday, March 25, with the American premiere of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel, a surreal fantasy about a dinner party from which the guests can’t escape. The Exterminati

will.i.am and Friends Featuring the Black Eyed Peas

Apr 20, 2018

International superstar will.i.am performs from London’s historic Royal Albert Hall in a one-night-only concert event. The award-winning artist, writer and producer reunites with members of the Black Eyed Peas plus special guests Pia Mia, E

Great Performances at the Met: L’Elisir d’Amore

Apr 29, 2018

Donizetti’s comedy charms with Pretty Yende as Adina and Matthew Polenzani as Nemorino. The poor country boy Nemorino wins the love of wealthy and beautiful Adina with the help of a magic elixir. Susanna Phillips hosts.

Great Performances at the Met: La Boheme

May 20, 2018

See the classic Puccini opera starring Sonya Yoncheva as Mimì and Michael Fabiano as Rodolfo. In 1830s Paris, the budding romances of two couples are tested by jealousy, poverty and illness. Marco Armiliato conducts.

The Opera House

May 25, 2018

Explore the rich history of the Met Opera’s Lincoln Center home and the cultural life of 1950s-60s New York City. Features famed soprano Leontyne Price, the Met’s general manager Rudolf Bing, city planner Robert Moses and architect Wallace

Great Performances at the Met: Tosca

Jun 15, 2018

Sonya Yoncheva and Vittorio Grigolo sing Tosca and Cavaradossi’s Act I duet in the final dress rehearsal.

Ellis Island: The Dream of America with Pacific Symphony

Jun 29, 2018

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 cla

Great Performances at the Met: Semiramide

Jul 8, 2018

Experience Rossini’s masterpiece starring Angela Meade as Queen Semiramide and Elizabeth DeShong as Arsace, the Queen’s fiancé and her own son. Javier Camarena, Ildar Abdrazakov and Ryan Speedo Green complete the cast. Maurizio Benini condu

Great Performances at the Met: Così fan tutte

Jul 29, 2018

Enjoy a new production of Mozart’s comedy of the sexes set in 1950s Coney Island. Stars Kelli O’Hara, Amanda Majeski, Serena Malfi, Ben Bliss, Adam Plachetka and Christopher Maltman. David Robertson conducts.

Chicago Voices

Aug 10, 2018

Celebrate Chicago’s vibrant music culture with performances by Renée Fleming, Broadway’s Jessie Mueller, rap artist Lupe Fiasco, folk legend John Prine, pop and gospel singer Michelle Williams and more.

Great Performances at the Met: Luisa Miller

Aug 12, 2018

Experience Verdi’s heart-wrenching opera with Plácido Domingo as Miller, and Sonya Yoncheva in the title role opposite tenor Piotr Beczała as Rodolfo. Conducted by Bertrand de Billy. Anthony Roth Costanzo hosts.

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2018

Aug 17, 2018

Enjoy the world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic’s annual open-air concert from Austria’s Imperial Schönbrunn Palace, featuring conductor Valery Gergiev and internationally acclaimed soprano Anna Netrebko as a guest soloist.

The Chris Botti Band in Concert

Aug 18, 2018

With this new special, Great Performances puts the spotlight on Botti and his band, capturing one of today’s leading jazz trumpeters at his peak.

Great Performances at the Met: Cendrillon

Sep 9, 2018

Experience Massenet’s Cinderella with Joyce DiDonato in the title role, Alice Coote as Prince Charming, Kathleen Kim as the Fairy Godmother, and Stephanie Blythe as Madame de la Haltière. Bertrand de Billy conducts Laurent Pelly’s productio