Great Performances

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Dance in America: 'Jewels' from the Paris Opera Ballet
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Vienna State Opera 50th Anniversary Reopening Gala
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The Vienna State Opera House reopened on November 5, 1955, after being bombed during World War II. This concert, performed on November 5, 2005, in celebration of the reopening's 50th .. show full overview
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Mozart at 250: The Salzburg Festival Celebration
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To celebrate Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 250th birthday a gala concert is presented with the Vienna Philharmonic. Mozart's most memorable works are featured.
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Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2006
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Carnegie Hall's opening night of the season features The Cleveland Orchestra performing an evening of Viennese favorites.
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A Tribute to James Taylor
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Various artists perform songs made famous by James Taylor, including Taylor himself. Song list: Shower The People -- The Dixie Chicks Rainy Day Man -- Bonnie Raitt Secret O'Life -- .. show full overview
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Beverly Sills: Made in America
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A tribute to Beverly Sills with performances by Sills and others, and clips from past performances
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Garrison Keillor's New Year's Eve Special
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Garrison Keillor hosts a live New Year's Eve broadcast from Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.
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From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2007
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From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2007
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Great Performances at the Met: The Magic Flute
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Mozart's "The Magic Flute," with Matthew Polenzani (Tamino); Nathan Gunn (Papageno); Erika Miklósa (Queen of the Night); René Pape (Sarastro); Ying Huang (Pamina); Greg Fedderly (Monostatos); and Jennifer Aylmer (Papagena). James Levine conducts.
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Great Performances at the Met: I Puritani
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Anna Netrebko stars in Bellini's bel canto opera "I Puritani" as a bride-to-be whose wedding day is disrupted when her betrothed (Eric Cutler) helps the condemned Queen Enrichetta (Maria .. show full overview
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Sting: Songs from the Labyrinth
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Sting and acclaimed Bosnian lute player Edin Karamazov perform songs of Elizabethan musician John Dowland.
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Loreena McKennitt: Nights From the Alhambra
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Canadian Celtic artist Loreena McKennitt performs at Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain.
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Jerry Lee Lewis: Last Man Standing, Live
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Jerry Lee Lewis performs selections from his current album, "Last Man Standing." This album, released 50 years after his first album debuted, features new duet versions of his hit songs performed with a variety of singers.
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Barenboim on Beethoven
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Legendary pianist Daniel Barenboim performs five Beethoven sonatas.
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Great Performances at the Met: The First Emperor
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Placido Domingo stars in “The First Emperor” as Chinese ruler Qin Shi Huang, who attempts to unify his kingdom with a national anthem penned by a childhood-friend-turned-composer (Paul .. show full overview
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Great Performances at the Met: Eugene Onegin
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Tchaikovsky's “Eugene Onegin,” starring Renée Fleming as Tatiana, a young Russian who's rebuffed by the object of her affection, Eugene Onegin (Dmitri Hvorostovsky). Years later, after .. show full overview
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Great Performances at the Met: The Barber of Seville
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Gioacchino Rossini's classic comic opera “The Barber of Seville” stars Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez as Count Almaviva, whose pursuit of the lovely Rosina (Joyce DiDonato) is aided by .. show full overview
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We Love Ella: A Tribute to the First Lady of Song
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April 25, 2007, would have been Ella Fitzgerald's 90th birthday. To celebrate, Great Performances has created an all-star tribute to the great jazz singer.
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Great Performances at the Met: Il Trittico
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“Il Trittico,” Puccini's collection of three one-act operas. “Il Tabarro” concerns doomed lovers (Maria Guleghina, Salvatore Licitra); “Suor Angelica,” is about the salvation of a nun .. show full overview
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Dance in America: Dancing in the Light
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A follow-up to 2001s survey of African American dance, Free to Dance, Dancing in the Light included full performances that were not in the original series due to time restrictions.
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Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story
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A celebration of the Stax Records company of Memphis Tennessee with commentaries by former performers, executives and others. In it\'s heyday in the 1960s Stax recorded songs for such stars as Otis Redding, Booker T. and the MGs and Richard Pryor.
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Lionel Richie: Live in Paris
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Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter Lionel Richie performs a concert of his famous hits and newer songs from his latest CD, Coming Home.
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Nureyev: The Russian Years
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Recently discovered sources that were silenced in Soviet Russia now speak freely about the great dancer Rudolph Nureyev. Interviews with friends and colleagues trace his early career .. show full overview

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