Great Performances

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Great Performances at the Met: L'Amour de Loin
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One of the most discussed, praised, and successful of recent operas, L’Amour de Loin is a seductively beautiful tale of love’s unfathomable nature. The idea of impossible love was .. show full overview
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Havana Time Machine
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A performance documentary outlines the evolving cultural scene in Cuba; host Raul Malo.
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GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends® 2017
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The Recording Academy honors Lifetime Achievement Award recipients Shirley Caesar, Ahmad Jamal, Charley Pride, Jimmie Rodgers, Nina Simone, Sly Stone, producer Thom Bell, record executive Mo Ostin, Ralph S. Peer and the Velvet Underground.
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She Loves Me
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Two feuding store clerks find solace in each other as anonymous romantic pen pals.
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Noël Coward's Present Laughter
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A revival of Noël Coward's ``Present Laughter'' features Kevin Kline, Kate Burton, Kristine Nielsen and Cobie Smulders.
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In The Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams
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As part of its Broadway’s Best lineup, Great Performances airs a special encore presentation of In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams – Friday, November 10 at 9 p.m. ET (check local .. show full overview
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Foo Fighters – Landmarks Live in Concert
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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 .. show full overview
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Indecent
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Broadway’s critically acclaimed and Tony Award-winning Indecent comes to Great Performances Friday, November 17 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) as part of the fall Broadway’s Best lineup.
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Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
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The festive Roundabout Theatre Company production of Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn - The Broadway Musical comes to PBS Friday, November 24 at 9 p.m. (check local listings). The musical .. show full overview
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Hitman: David Foster & Friends
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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 .. show full overview
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The Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed Live
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The Moody Blues perform the ``Days of Future Passed'' album in its entirety in Toronto.
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From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2018
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The Vienna Philharmonic performs Strauss family waltzes, accompanied by the Vienna City Ballet; host Hugh Bonneville.
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Great Performances at the Met: Norma
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Conducted by Carlo Rizzi, Bellini's ``Norma'' features Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato and Joseph Calleja.
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Nas Live From the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop
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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 history.
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Movies for Grownups® Awards with AARP the Magazine
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Editors of AARP The Magazine present awards to actors, films and filmmakers whose work appeals to the 50-plus audience.
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Great Performances at the Met: Exterminating Angel
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The Exterminating Angel was inspired by the classic Luis Buñuel film of the same name, and stars John Tomlinson and Alice Coote. Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham is the host. Thomas Adès’s .. show full overview
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will.i.am and Friends Featuring the Black Eyed Peas
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International superstar will.i.am performs from London’s historic Royal Albert Hall in a one-night-only concert event. The Grammy-, Emmy- and Latin Grammy-winning artist, writer and .. show full overview
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Great Performances at the Met: L’Elisir d’Amore
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In Bartlett Sher’s production, the beautiful and wealthy Adina draws the attention of Nemorino, the poor but good-hearted country boy, as well as Sergeant Belcore, who immediately asks .. show full overview
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Great Performances at the Met: La Boheme
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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.
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The Opera House
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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 Harrison.
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Great Performances at the Met: Tosca
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Puccini’s thrilling classic, with Sonya Yoncheva, Vittorio Grigolo and Željko Lučić.
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Ellis Island: The Dream of America with Pacific Symphony
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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 .. show full overview
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Great Performances at the Met: Semiramide
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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 conducts.
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Great Performances at the Met: Così fan tutte
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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.
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Chicago Voices
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A tribute to Chicago vocalists features performances by Renée Fleming, Jessie Mueller, Kurt Elling, Michelle Williams, Matthew Polenzani, Shemekia Copeland, The Handsome Family, John Prine, Lupe Fiasco and the Voices of Trinity Mass Choir.
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Great Performances at the Met: Luisa Miller
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Verdi's "Luisa Miller,'' a tragedy of fatherly love, features Placido Domingo, Sonya Yoncheva and Piotr Beczala.
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Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2018
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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.
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The Chris Botti Band in Concert
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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.
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Great Performances at the Met: Cendrillon
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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 production.

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