Celebrate the New Year with waltzes by Strauss and more performed from Vienna’s Musikverein by the famed orchestra led by guest conductor Christian Thielemann. PBS favorite Hugh Bonneville returns to host.
Enjoy a revue of milestone Broadway shows and songs from 1973 to 2023 hosted by two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster. Features performances by André De Shields, Chita Rivera, Vanessa Williams and more from Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater.
Making Shakespeare marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, which saved 18 plays from being lost and spotlights how New York City's Public Theater presents Shakespeare's work for today's audiences.
Message in a Bottle is director and choreographer Kate Prince’s dance and theater show set to the songs of Sting and The Police. Telling the story of a migrant family, the show from London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre features a mix of dance styles.
Captured in peak performance at Madrid’s Teatro Real, New York City Ballet performs two masterpieces choreographed by NYCB co-founder and original Artistic Director George Balanchine, “Serenade” and “Square Dance" as well as a piece by current resident choreographer Justin Peck.
Celebrate the rhythms of Latin music with the Raices Jazz Orchestra and performances by GRAMMY-winning artists including Richard Bona and Anaadi. Hosted by Sheila E. A co-presentation of Great Performances and Latino Public Broadcasting’s VOCES.
The world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic is joined by a guest soloist to perform an enchanting open-air concert under the direction of a guest conductor from the magnificent gardens of Austria's Imperial Schönbrunn Palace, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site.
GREAT PERFORMANCES Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony examines questions of humanity and faith, exploring the complicated nature of a higher power who governs mortality. The performance features Marin Alsop conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with soprano Janai Brugger, the Chicago Children’s Choir and Jaye Ladymore as narrator.
Back at the Met for the first time in 25 years, Umberto Giordano’s drama stars soprano Sonya Yoncheva in the title role, a 19th-century Russian princess who falls in love with her fiancé’s murderer, Count Loris, sung by star tenor Piotr Beczała. Soprano Rosa Feola is the Countess Olga, Fedora’s confidant, and baritone Lucas Meachem is the diplomat De Siriex.
Sondra Radvanovsky portrays the mythic sorceress in this Met premiere of Cherubini’s rarely performed masterpiece.