Season 39 (2011)

Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk
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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

Andrea Bocelli: Live in Central Park
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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

The Little Mermaid from San Francisco Ballet
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December 16, 2011

John Neumeier -- director and chief choreographer for Hamburg Ballet -- blends dance, dramatic storytelling and spectacle into a u...Read more

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2012
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January 1, 2012

Episode 4 of Season 39 premiered on January 1, 2012

Herbie Hancock, Gustavo Dudamel and the LA PHIL Celebrate
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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

Let Me Down Easy
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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

Great Performances at the Met: Anna Bolena
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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

Tony Bennett: Duets II
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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

Memphis
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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

Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni
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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

The Thomashefskys
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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

The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall
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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

Great Performances at the Met: Satyagraha
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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

San Francisco Symphony at 100
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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

Great Performances at the Met: Rodelinda
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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

Great Performances at the Met: Faust
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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

Great Performances at the Met: The Enchanted Island
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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

Great Performances at the Met: Ernani
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June 17, 2012

Angela Meade, Marcello Giodani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Ferruccio Furlanetto star in Verdi’s Ernani.

Great Performances at the Met: Manon
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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

Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration
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August 10, 2012

The concert features the BSO, Boston Pops Orchestra and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, under the direction of conductors John ...Read more

Jackie Evancho: Music of the Movies
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August 11, 2012

THIRTEEN’s Great Performances will present 12-year-old classical crossover prodigy Jackie Evancho’s second television special Jack...Read more

Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata
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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

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2012
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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

Great Performances at the Met: Wagner's Dream
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September 10, 2012

Robert Lepage’s acclaimed new production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen.