Latest Articles About Great Performances on PBS
Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2015 Airs on THIRTEEN's Great Performances, 8/28
by Caryn Robbins - July 23, 2015 The Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2015 airs on THIRTEEN's Great Performances, Friday, August 28 at 9 p.m. on PBS. (Check local listings.)...
Mark Morris Dance Group: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato Set for THIRTEEN's Great Performances
by Caryn Robbins - February 23, 2015 Merriment and Milton are hardly synonymous, but the poet who penned Paradise Lost also inspired George Frideric Handel's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, which concludes 'Mirth, with thee we mean to live.'...
VIDEO: Sneak Peek at Annie Lennox's NOSTALGIA in Concert on PBS's GREAT PERFORMANCES
by TV News Desk - March 25, 2015 With the GREAT PERFORMANCES special, 'Annie Lennox: Nostalgia Live in Concert', the singer's unique interpretations bring a new intimacy to these timeless classics. Click below to watch clips from the program!...
STAGE TUBE: Watch NOW! CHITA RIVERA: A LOT OF LIVIN' TO DO Available to Stream in its Entirety
by Sally Henry Fuller - November 07, 2015 Chita Rivera: A Lot of Livin' to Do, a retrospective of her extraordinary life and career -featuring interviews, archival performance footage, and newly filmed numbers from Rivera's concert including such numbers as 'A Boy Like That,' 'America,' 'A Lot of Livin' to Do,' 'All That Jazz,' and 'Nowaday...
Susan Stroman Directs Renee Fleming in THE MERRY WIDOW on Great Performances at the Met
by Caryn Robbins - May 12, 2015 Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman, whose many credits include the Tony Award-winning musicals Crazy for You, Contact, and The Producers, makes her Met debut with a lavish new staging of Lehr's effervescent operetta The Merry Widow....
Josh Groban, Renee Fleming, Joshua Bell and NY Phil Set for 'LA DOLCE VITA', Airing on PBS Tonight
by TV News Desk - February 27, 2015 Featuring Josh Groban, Renee Fleming and Joshua Bell, GREAT PERFORMANCES partners with the New York Philharmonic and music director Alan Gilbert for a concert of memorable movie themes with music fromAmarcord, Cinema Paradiso, Il Postino, and more. La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema will air...
PBS to Air Documentary Chronicling HAMILTON's Journey to Broadway This Fall
by Tyler Peterson - January 18, 2016 At today's TCA press tour, PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger announced that it will air Hamilton'S AMERICA, a feature film documentary providing intimate access to Lin-Manuel Miranda and his colleagues during the two years leading up to the Broadway opening of the musical Hamilton....
Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, Bluebeard's Castle by Bart Set for GREAT PERFORMANCES, 7/12
by Caryn Robbins - June 12, 2015 Acclaimed Polish film director Mariusz Treliski makes his highly anticipated Met debut with the Metropolitan Opera's new production, inspired by classic noir films of the 1940s, bringing together two rarely performed one-acts...
KATCHKIE FARM and CSA Signup Day 2/26
by Marina Kennedy - February 24, 2016 Katchkie Farm in Columbia County, New York is participating in the February 26th National Community Supported Agriculture Signup Day....
Bartlett Sher Directs New Staging of Verdi's OTELLO on PBS's 'Great Performances,' 2/21
by Caryn Robbins - January 19, 2016 Verdi's late masterpiece based on Shakespeare's tragic drama of jealousy and deceit, Otello, airs on THIRTEEN'SGreat Performances at the Met Sunday, February 21 at 12 p.m. on PBS....
Eyre's Puccini's Manon Lescaut Coming to PBS's GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET
by Caryn Robbins - July 18, 2016 Puccini's lush classic Manon Lescaut airs on THIRTEEN'S Great Performances at the Met Saturday, August 13 at 11 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). (In New York, THIRTEEN will air the opera on Friday, August 26 at 9 p.m.)...
Great Performances at the Met Features Kristine Opolais and Roberto Alagna in MADAMA BUTTERFLY, 8/9
by Christina Mancuso - July 22, 2016 The late Anthony Minghella's critically acclaimed production of Puccini's classic Madama Butterfly comes to THIRTEEN'S Great Performances at the Met Friday, August 19 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings)....
Esa-Pekka Salonen Conducts ELEKTRA Starring Nina Stemme on GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET, 9/18
by Caryn Robbins - August 15, 2016 Elektra, Richard Strauss's blazing tragedy about an ancient Greek princess hell-bent on revenge, comes to THIRTEEN'S Great Performances at the Met....
Lyric Opera's BEL CANTO Set For PBS' Great Performances Series, 1/5
by Christina Mancuso - December 17, 2015 Lyric Opera of Chicago is excited to announce that Thirteen Productions LLC for WNET New York has selected the world-premiere production of Bel Canto – The Opera to be part of the prestigiousGreat Performances series on PBS. The WNET team will be in Chicago to film performances January 5 and 8. Bel ...
Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, Bluebeard's Castle by Bart Set for GREAT PERFORMANCES, 7/12
by Caryn Robbins - June 12, 2015 Acclaimed Polish film director Mariusz Treliski makes his highly anticipated Met debut with the Metropolitan Opera's new production, inspired by classic noir films of the 1940s, bringing together two rarely performed one-acts...
PBS Announces October Premiere Date for HAMILTON Documentary
by Caryn Robbins - June 23, 2016 This year's PBS ARTS FALL FESTIVAL kicks off October 21st with the highly anticipated documentary GREAT PERFORMANCES: HAMILTON'S AMERICA....
GREAT PERFORMANCES to Present Berg's 'Lulu', Starring Marlis Petersen, 4/10
by Caryn Robbins - March 16, 2016 Alban Berg's tragedy of a sexually irresistible woman who destroys the lives of everyone around her, Lulu, airs on THIRTEEN'S Great Performances at the Met Sunday, April 10 at 12 p.m. on PBS. (Check local listings.) (In New York, THIRTEEN will air the opera at 12:30 p.m.)...
Mark Morris Dance Group: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato Set for THIRTEEN's Great Performances
by Caryn Robbins - February 23, 2015 Merriment and Milton are hardly synonymous, but the poet who penned Paradise Lost also inspired George Frideric Handel's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, which concludes 'Mirth, with thee we mean to live.'...
Natalie Portman Hosts GREAT PERFORMANCES John Williams Celebration Tonight
by TV News Desk - July 24, 2015 This gala opening night performance, hosted by Natalie Portman and featuring Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, airs on THIRTEEN's Great Performances, tonight, July 24 at 9 p.m. on PBS. (Check local listings.)...
Puccini's 'Madama Butterfly' Set for GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET on PBS, 8/19
by Caryn Robbins - July 22, 2016 The late Anthony Minghella's critically acclaimed production of Puccini's classic Madama Butterfly comes to THIRTEEN'S Great Performances at the Met Friday, August 19 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings)....
Natalie Portman Hosts GREAT PERFORMANCES John Williams Celebration Tonight
by TV News Desk - July 24, 2015 This gala opening night performance, hosted by Natalie Portman and featuring Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, airs on THIRTEEN's Great Performances, tonight, July 24 at 9 p.m. on PBS. (Check local listings.)...
Great Performances at the Met Features Kristine Opolais and Roberto Alagna in MADAMA BUTTERFLY, Today
by BWW News Desk - August 09, 2016 The late Anthony Minghella's critically acclaimed production of Puccini's classic Madama Butterfly comes to THIRTEEN'S Great Performances at the Met Friday, August 19 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings)....
Josh Groban, Renee Fleming, Joshua Bell and NY Phil Set for 'LA DOLCE VITA', Airing on PBS Tonight
by TV News Desk - February 27, 2015 Featuring Josh Groban, Renee Fleming and Joshua Bell, GREAT PERFORMANCES partners with the New York Philharmonic and music director Alan Gilbert for a concert of memorable movie themes with music fromAmarcord, Cinema Paradiso, Il Postino, and more. La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema will air...
Julie Andrews Returns as Host of PBS's FROM VIENNA: THE NEW YEAR'S CELEBRATION 2016, 1/1
by Caryn Robbins - December 02, 2015 Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the seventh time to host the festive annual New Year's celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of Mariss Jansons, from Vienna's Musikverein....
VIDEO: Sneak Peek at Annie Lennox's NOSTALGIA in Concert on PBS's GREAT PERFORMANCES
by TV News Desk - March 25, 2015 With the GREAT PERFORMANCES special, 'Annie Lennox: Nostalgia Live in Concert', the singer's unique interpretations bring a new intimacy to these timeless classics. Click below to watch clips from the program!... |
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