Great Performances

Also Known As: Great Performances

IMDb Rating

5.8

Country

United States Of America

Genre

Comedy Documentary Drama

Duration

120 min

Release Date

1971

End Date

2026

Overview:

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.

Actors:

Cyrano de Bergerac

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

The Most Happy Fella

Great Performances' 10th Anniversary Celebration

Ellington: The Music Lives On

Alice in Wonderland

Laurence Olivier: A Life

The Best of Broadway

The Coronation of Poppea

Doctor Fischer of Geneva

Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music

The Importance of Being Ernest

The Gospel at Colonus (Episode 4)

The Cotton Club Remenbered

Broadway Sings: The Music of Jule Styne

The Music Makers: An ASCAP Celebration of American Music at Wolf Trap

Richard Burton: In from the Cold

San Francisco Opera: Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito

An Evening with Alan Jay Lerner

Music by Richard Rodgers

A Bowl of Beings

Suddenly, Last Summer

The World of Jim Henson

Les Misérables in Concert

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1997

Robert Altman's Jazz '34

Henry V at Shakespeare's Globe

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1998

Frank Sinatra: The Very Good Years

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1999

The Rodgers & Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty

My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2000

Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

The Great American Songbook

My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs

Shaolin: Wheel of Life

The Merry Widow

From Shtetl to Swing

Garrison Keillor’s Independence Day Special: A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood

Degas and the Dance

James Taylor: One Man Band

Bill Irwin: Clown Prince

We Love Ella: A Tribute to the First Lady of Song

Pavarotti: A Life in Seven Arias

Hitman: David Foster & Friends

Domingo, Netrebko & Villazón: Three Stars in Vienna

Cyrano de Bergerac

Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood: Live From Madison Square Garden

Stevie Wonder: Live at Last

Chess in Concert

Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebration: Live from Madison Square Garden

Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Andrea Bocelli & David Foster: My Christmas

Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden

Renee Fleming & Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Sting: A Winter's Night

Dance in America NY Export Opus Jazz

Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Pierre Boulez Conducts Mahler

Sondheim! The Birthday Concert

Celebracion! Dudamel, Florez, and the L.A. Philharmonic

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2011

Great Performances at the Met: Don Pasquale

Great Performances at the Met: Boris Godunov

Hitman Returns: David Foster & Friends

Harry Connick in Concert on Broadway

Billy Joel: Live at Shea Stadium

Great Performances at the Met: Don Carlo

Great Performances at the Met: La Fanciulla Del West

Great Performances at the Met: Iphigenie En Tauride

Carnegie Hall 120th Anniversary Concert

Great Performances at the Met: Nixon in China

Crossroads Guitar Festival 3

Jackie Evancho Dream With Me In Concert

Great Performances at the Met: Lucia di Lammermoor

Rigoletto from Mantua

Great Performances at the Met: Le Cornte Ory

Great Performances at the Met: Capriccio

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night 2011

Placido Domingo: My Favorite Roles

Let Them Talk: A Celebration of New Orleans Blues

Andrea Bocelli: Live in Central Park

The Little Mermaid from San Francisco Ballet

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2012

Herbie Hancock, Gustavo Dudamel and the LA PHIL Celebrate

Let Me Down Easy

Great Performances at the Met: Anna Bolena

Tony Bennett: Duets II

Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni

The Thomashefskys

The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall

Great Performances at the Met: Satyagraha

San Francisco Symphony at 100

Great Performances at the Met: Rodelinda

Great Performances at the Met: Faust

Great Performances at the Met: The Enchanted Island

Great Performances at the Met: Ernani

Great Performances at the Met: Manon

Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration

Jackie Evancho: Music of the Movies

Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2012

Great Performances at the Met: Wagner's Dream

Paul McCartney's Live Kisses

Rod Stewart: Merry Christmas, Baby

Magical Mystery Tour Revisited

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2013

Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy

Paul Simon's Graceland Journey: Under African Skies

Great Performances at the Met: L'Elisir d'Amore

Great Performances at the Met: The Tempest

Great Performances at the Met: La Clemenza di Tito

Great Performances at the Met: Un Ballo in Maschera

Great Performances at the Met: Rigoletto

Great Performances at the Met: Aida

Great Performances at the Met: Les Troyens

Dancing at Jacob’s Pillow: Never Stand Still

Great Performances at the Met: Parsifal

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2013

Great Performances at the Met: Francesca di Rimini

Great Performances at the Met: Giulio Cesare

Henry IV Part 1

Henry IV Part 2

Great Performances 40th Anniversary Celebration

San Francisco Opera's Moby Dick

Company with the New York Philharmonic

Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!"

Barbra Streisand: Back to Brooklyn

Pavarotti: A Voice for the Ages

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2014

Great Performanes at the Met: Eugene Onegin

National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage

Sting: The Last Ship

Great Performances at the Met: The Nose

Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs as Dukes of Sept.

Steve Martin and The Sheep Canyon Rangers ft Edie Brickell

Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Celebration Concert

Great Performances at the Met: Tosca

The Dave Clark Five and Beyond - Glad All Over

Great Performances at the Met: Falstaff

Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty

Great Performances at the Met: Rusalka

Great Performances at the Met: Prince Igor

Great Performances at the Met: La Boheme

Great Performances at the Met: Werther

Dudamel Conducts Verdi Requiem at the Hollywood Bowl

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2014

Great Performances at the Met: Cosi Fan Tutte

Rejoice with Itzhak Perlman & Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot

Great Performances at the Met: La Cenerentola

Star-Spangled Spectacular

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE!

Cats: The Musical

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2015

American Voices with Renée Fleming

GP at the Met: Le Nozze di Figaro

Great Performances at the Met: Carmen

La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema

Bryan Adams in Concert

Great Performances at the Met: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Mark Morris Dance Group: L'Allegro

Annie Lennox: Nostalgia Live in Concert

Great Performances at the Met: Meistersinger

Great Performances at the Met: Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Boston Symphony Orchestra: Andris Nelsons' Concert

Great Performances at the Met: The Merry Widow

Great Performances at the Met: Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle

Driving Miss Daisy

Dudamel Conducts a John Williams Celebration With the LA Phil

Great Performances at the Met: La Donna Del Lago

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2015

Great Performances at the Met: Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci

Billy Elliot: The Musical

Chita Rivera: A Lot of Livin’ to Do

Andrea Bocelli: Cinema

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2016

Great Performances at the Met: Il Trovatore

Great Performances at the Met: Otello

Great Performances at the Met: Tannhäuser

Great Performances at the Met: Lulu

Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration

Great Performances at the Met: The Pearl Fishers

Great Performances at the Met: Turandot

Great Performances at the Met: Manon Lescaut

Great Performances at the Met: Madama Butterfly

Great Performances at the Met: Roberto Devereux

Great Performances at the Met: Elektra

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2016

GRAMMY Salute to Music Legends 2016

Hamilton's America

The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses | Henry VI, Part 1

The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses | Henry VI, Part 2

Shakespeare Live! From the Royal Shakespeare Company

The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses | Richard III

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2017

Bel Canto the Opera From Lyric Opera of Chicago

Alicia Keys - Landmarks Live in Concert

Brad Paisley – Landmarks Live in Concert

Great Performances at the Met: Tristan und Isolde

New York City Ballet in Paris

Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni

New York City Ballet Symphony in C

Dudamel Conducts Tangos Under the Stars

Great Performances at the Met: L'Amour de Loin

Great Performances at The Met: Romeo et Juliette

Great Performances at the Met: Nabucco

Great Performances at the Met: Rusalka

Andrea Bocelli – Landmarks Live in Concert

Great Performances at the Met: Idomeneo

Great Performances at The Met: Eugene Onegin

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2017

Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata

Great Performances at the Met: Der Rosenkavalier

Havana Time Machine

GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends® 2017

Noël Coward’s Present Laughter

In The Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams

Foo Fighters – Landmarks Live in Concert

Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn

The Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed Live

Hitman: David Foster & Friends

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2018

Great Performances at the Met: Norma

Nas Live From the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop

Movies for Grownups® Awards with AARP the Magazine

Great Performances at the Met: Exterminating Angel

will.i.am and Friends Featuring the Black Eyed Peas

Great Performances at the Met: L’Elisir d’Amore

Great Performances at the Met: La Boheme

The Opera House

Great Performances at the Met: Tosca

Ellis Island: The Dream of America with Pacific Symphony

Great Performances at the Met: Semiramide

Great Performances at the Met: Così fan tutte

Great Performances at the Met: Luisa Miller

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2018

The Chris Botti Band in Concert

Great Performances at the Met: Cendrillon

GRAMMY Salute to Music Legends® 2018

An American In Paris The Musical

John Leguizamo’s Road to Broadway

Harold Prince: The Director’s Life

Tony Bennett & Diana Krall – Love Is Here to Stay

Michael Bublé: Tour Stop 148

k.d. lang – Landmarks Live in Concert

Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood

Great Performances at the Met: Aida

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2019

The Cleveland Orchestra Centennial Celebration

Orphée et Eurydice from Lyric Opera of Chicago

Doubt from the Minnesota Opera

Great Performances at the Met: Marnie

Movies for Grownups Awards with AARP The Magazine 2019

Great Performances at the Met: La Fanciulla del West

Andrea Bocelli @ 60

Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration

Birgit Nilsson: A League of Her Own

Great Performances at the Met: Samson et Dalila

Julius Caesar from Donmar

Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata

Great Performances at the Met: Adriana Lecouvreur

Great Performances at the Met: Carmen

Great Performances at the Met: La Fille du Régiment

Great Performances at the Met: Die Walküre

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2019

Great Performances at the Met: Dialogues Des Carmélites

Now Hear This “Vivaldi: Something Completely Different”

Now Hear This “The Riddle of Bach”

Now Hear This “Scarlatti: Man Out of Time”

Now Hear This “Handel: Italian Style”

GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends® 2019

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I

Much Ado About Nothing

Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert

An Intimate Evening with David Foster

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2020

Great Performances at the Met: Manon

Movies for Grownups Awards 2020 with AARP The Magazine

Great Performances at the Met: Madama Butterfly

Great Performances at the Met: Turandot

Great Performances at the Met: Akhnaten

Andrea Bocelli: Music for Hope, A Great Performances Special

Great Performances at the Met: Wozzeck

Leonard Bernstein's Mass

Great Performances at the Met: Agrippina

Great Performances at the Met: Der Fliegende Holländer

Great Performances at the Met: The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

Great Performances at the Met: Tosca

Great Performances at the Met: Maria Stuarda

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2020

Romeo and Juliet

Now Hear This “Haydn: King of Strings”

Now Hear This “The Schubert Generation”

Now Hear This “Becoming Mozart”

GRAMMY Salute to Music Legends® 2020

One Man, Two Guvnors

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn

Lea Salonga in Concert

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2021

The Magic of Callas

The Magic of Horowitz

Great Performances at the Met: Renée Fleming in Concert

Movies for Grownups® Awards 2021 with AARP The Magazine

Great Performances at the Met: Jonas Kaufmann in Concert

Beethoven in Beijing

Great Performances at the Met: Lise Davidsen in Concert

The Arts Interrupted

Great Performances at the Met: Aleksandra Kurzak & Roberto Alagna in Concert

Andrea Bocelli: Believe

Mick Fleetwood & Friends

Great Performances at the Met: Anna Netrebko in Concert

Great Performances at the Met: Joyce DiDonato in Concert

Gloria Estefan: Sangre Yoruba

Roots of Latin Jazz

Great Performances at the Met: Diana Damrau & Joseph Calleja in Concert

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2021

Great Performances at the Met: Sonya Yoncheva in Concert

Yannick – An Artist’s Journey

Verdi’s Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11

Great Performances at the Met: Sondra Radvanovsky & Piotr Beczala in Concert

Great Performances at the Met: Three Divas at Versailles

Now Hear This "Beethoven's Ghost"

Great Performances at the Met: Wagnerians in Concert

A John Williams Premiere at Tanglewood

San Francisco Symphony Reopening Night

Unforgettable With Love - Natalie Cole

Great Performances at the Met: Bryn Terfel & Friends in Concert

Great Performances at the Met: New Year's Eve Gala

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2022

Reopening: The Broadway Revival

Great Performances at the Met: Boris Godunov

Great Performances at the Met: Eurydice

Movies for Grownups® Awards 2022 with AARP The Magazine

Great Performances at the Met: Fire Shut Up In My Bones

Now Hear This "Amy Beach - American Romantic"

Now Hear This "Florence Price and the American Migration"

Now Hear This "Aaron Copland - Dean of American Music"

Now Hear This "New American Voices"

Great Performances at the Met: Cinderella

Keeping Company with Sondheim

Great Performances at the Met: Rigoletto

Great Performances at the Met: Ariadne Auf Naxos

Great Performances at the Met: Don Carlos

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2022

Great Performances at the Met: Turandot

Black Lucy and The Bard

Intimate Apparel

Great Performances at the Met: Lucia Di Lammermoor

Great Performances at the Met: Hamlet

NY Phil Reopening of David Geffen Hall

Josh Groban's Great Big Radio City Show

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2023

Movies for Grownups® Awards 2023 with AARP The Magazine

The Magic of Spirituals

Great Performances at the Met: The Hours

Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata

Now Hear This “Piazzolla’s History with Tango”

Now Hear This “Schumann - Genius and Madness”

Now Hear This “Andy Akiho Found (his) Sound”

Now Hear This “Albéniz - Portraits of Spain”

Great Performances at the Met: Fedora

Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best

Great Performances at the Met: Medea

Great Performances at the Met: Lohengrin

Great Performances at the Met: Falstaff

Leonard Bernstein's Kaddish Symphony

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2023

Great Performances at the Met: Der Rosenkavalier

Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni

New York City Ballet in Madrid

Message In A Bottle

Great Performances at the Met: Champion

Making Shakespeare: The First Folio

Great Performances at the Met: Die Zauberflöte

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2024

Great Performances at the Met: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

The LA Phil Celebrates Frank Gehry

George Jones: Still Playin’ Possum

Great Performances at the Met: Dead Man Walking

Great Performances at the Met: Florencia en el Amazonas

Great Performances at the Met: Nabucco

Audra McDonald at the London Palladium

Purlie Victorious

Rodgers & Hammerstein's 80th Anniversary

Émigré: A Musical Drama with the NY Phil

Patsy Cline: Walkin' After Midnight

Henry Mancini 100 at the Hollywood Bowl

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2025

Movies for Grownups® Awards 2025 with AARP The Magazine

Andrea Bocelli 30th – The Celebration

Great Performances at the Met: Grounded

Now Hear This “Chopin’s Polish Heart”

The Magic of Nureyev

Great Performances at the Met: Les Contes d’Hoffmann

Now Hear This "Boccherini: Night Music"

Now Hear This: Rachmaninoff Reborn

Now Hear This "Barrios: Chopin of the Guitar"

Great Performances at the Met: Tosca

Girl from the North Country

Great Performances at the Met: Aida

Great Performances at the Met: Fidelio

Great Performances at the Met: Le Nozze di Figaro

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2025

Great Performances at the Met: Salome

The Magic of Grace Bumbry

Great Performances at the Met: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Tiler Peck: Suspending Time

Nutcracker from English National Ballet

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2026

Movies for Grownups® Awards 2026 with AARP The Magazine

Comments

The comment field is only for members. Login, Register

Similar content

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Show

2010

Show

2012

Show

2009

Show

2024

Show

2026

Show

Close

Streaming content is provided for entertainment purposes only.

Copyright © cymovies 2026

Sponsored by Cymovies!