September 30, 2011
An American favorite for his award-winning role in the hit TV series House, the versatile British actor Hugh Laurie showcases his ...Read more
December 2, 2011 • 2h 26m
Beloved tenor Andrea Bocelli performs a free concert on Central Park's Great Lawn, with the New York Philharmonic conducted by its...Read more
December 16, 2011
John Neumeier -- director and chief choreographer for Hamburg Ballet -- blends dance, dramatic storytelling and spectacle into a u...Read more
January 1, 2012
Episode 4 of Season 39 premiered on January 1, 2012
January 6, 2012
Herbie Hancock, Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil Celebrate Gershwin, featuring that classic piece as well as "An American in Paris"...Read more
January 13, 2012
Anna Deavere Smith's latest production, Let Me Down Easy. The Great Performances production was recorded in February 2011 in the K...Read more
January 20, 2012
The Metropolitan Opera premiere of Donizetti's Anna Bolena, starring soprano Anna Netrebko in her highly anticipated first North A...Read more
January 27, 2012
Tony Bennett: Duets II features the singer's greatest hits, performed by Bennett and today's biggest stars, including John Mayer, ...Read more
February 24, 2012
Broadway's smash hit musical Memphis, winner of four Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book and Best Orchestrat...Read more
February 26, 2012
Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads his first Met performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni in a new production directed by Tony Awa...Read more
March 29, 2012
The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater, a celebration of Yiddish theater pioneers Boris and Bessie...Read more
March 29, 2012
The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, a fully-staged, lavish 25th anniversary mounting of Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-...Read more
March 25, 2012
Philip Glass's inspirational opera Satyagraha (Sanskrit for "truth force"), in the first revival of Phelim McDermott and Julian Cr...Read more
March 30, 2012
San Francisco Symphony's Centennial Season opening night gala, conducted by Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. The two-hour bro...Read more
April 22, 2012
Renee Fleming reprises one of her most popular interpretations: the title role in Handel's Rodelinda, under the baton of Baroque s...Read more
May 13, 2012
Three of the opera world’s leading stars—Jonas Kaufmann, Marina Poplavskaya, and René Pape—sing the principal roles in a new produ...Read more
May 18, 2012
The Enchanted Island is a world premiere work that combines Baroque music with a new, English-language libretto featuring characte...Read more
June 17, 2012
Angela Meade, Marcello Giodani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Ferruccio Furlanetto star in Verdi’s Ernani.
August 5, 2012
Star soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met performances of the title role in Manon, Massenet’s opera about a country girl with...Read more
August 10, 2012
The concert features the BSO, Boston Pops Orchestra and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, under the direction of conductors John ...Read more
August 11, 2012
THIRTEEN’s Great Performances will present 12-year-old classical crossover prodigy Jackie Evancho’s second television special Jack...Read more
August 26, 2012
Acclaimed French soprano Natalie Dessay makes her Met role debut as Violetta, the fallen woman who sacrifices her last chance for ...Read more
August 31, 2012
Under the baton of the dynamic and electric guest maestro, Gustavo Dudamel, the Vienna Philharmonic performs the finale of Amilcar...Read more
September 10, 2012
Robert Lepage’s acclaimed new production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen.