Great Performances

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Episodes

  • GP at the Met: Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle

    Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, starring Anna Netrebko, and Bluebeard’s Castle by Bartók.
  • Great Performances at the Met: The Merry Widow

    The new staging is the Met debut of Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman.
  • GP at the Met: Les Contes d'Hoffmann

    Vittorio Grigolo stars as the tortured poet unlucky in love in Offenbach’s opera.
  • GP at the Met: Meistersinger

    Met Music Director James Levine leads Wagner’s grand comedy, starring Michael Volle.
  • GP at the Met: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

    Rossini’s classic comedy features some of the most recognizable melodies in opera.
  • GP at the Met: Carmen

    Bizet’s Carmen returns with Anita Rachvelishvili and Aleksandrs Antonenko.
  • GP at the Met: Le Nozze di Figaro

    Mozart's opera of marital discord is conducted by Met Music Director James Levine.
  • Nas Live From the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop

    Nas and the National Symphony Orchestra stage a symphonic rendition of “Illmatic."

About Great Performances

Great Performances brings the best in the performing arts from across America and around the world to a US television audience. It presents a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.

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