List of Great Performances episodes

This is a list of episodes for the television series Great Performances. It includes special episodes.

Episodes

New York Playhouse (1972–73)

• Antigone (October 7, 1972)^[1]
• The Rimers of Eldritch (November 4, 1972)^[2]
• Theatre and Film '72 (December 16, 1972)^[3]

Season 1 (1973–74)

As Theatre in America^[4]

• Enemies, from the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center (January 23, 1974)
• June Moon (January 30, 1974)
• Cyrano de Bergerac, from the American Conservatory Theater (February 6, 1974)
• Antigone, from Playhouse New York (February 13, 1974)
• King Lear, from the New York Shakespeare Festival (February 20, 1974)
• In Fashion, from the Actors Theatre of Louisville (March 20, 1974)
• Feasting with Panthers by Adrian Hall and Richard Cumming, from Trinity Repertory Company (March 27, 1974)
• The Contractor by David Storey, from Chelsea Theater Center (April 10, 1974)
• The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, from Long Wharf Theater (May 8, 1974)
• A Touch of the Poet (May 15, 1974)
• Monkey, Monkey, Bottle of Beer, How Many Monkeys Have We Here?, from Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (May 22, 1974)

Season 2 (1974–75)

• Arthur Rubinstein: Chopin (October 16, 1974)^[5]
• Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (November 13, 1974)^[6]
• Solti Conducts Mendelssohn (December 16, 1974)^[7]
• Bernstein at Tanglewood (December 25, 1974)
• Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra play Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (December 31, 1974)^[8]
• Theater in America: Zalmen or the Madness of God by Elie Wiesel, from Arena Stage (January 8, 1975)^[9]
• Theater in America: The Seagull, from Williamstown Theatre Festival (January 29, 1975)^[10]
• Theater in America: Brother to Dragons, adapted from the poem by Robert Penn Warren by Adrian Hall and Ken Campbell, from Trinity Repertory Company (February 19, 1975)^[11]
• Theater in America: The Ceremony of Innocence (March 1, 1975)
• Theater in America: Forget‐Me‐Not Lane by Peter Nichols, from Long Wharf Theater (March 12, 1975)^[12]
• Pagliacci, from La Scala (March 19, 1975)^[13]
• Theater in America: The School for Scandal, from the Guthrie Theater (April 2, 1975)^[14]
• Theater in America: The Rules of the Game, from the New Phoenix Repertory Company (April 30, 1975)^[15]
• Who's Happy Now? by Oliver Hailey^[16]

Season 3 (1975–76)

• Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill^[17]
• The Collection, from Laurence Olivier Presents (January 1, 1976)^[18]
• Theater in America: Beyond the Horizon, from the McCarter Theatre (January 14, 1976)^[19]
• Dance in America: Joffrey Ballet (January 21, 1976)^[20]
• Theater in America: First Breeze of Summer by Leslie Lee, from the Negro Ensemble Company (January 28, 1976)^[19]
• Live from Lincoln Center: New York Philharmonic with André Previn and Van Cliburn (January 30, 1976)
• Theater in America: The Mound Builders by Lanford Wilson, from the Circle Repertory Company (February 11, 1976)^[20]
• Dance in America: Twyla Tharp & Dancers (February 25, 1976)^[20]
• Theater in America: The Time of Your Life, from The Acting Company^[20]
• Dance in America: Martha Graham Dance Company (April 7, 1976)^[20]
• Live from Lincoln Center: The Ballad of Baby Doe (April 21, 1976)
• Theater in America: All Over, from the Hartford Stage (April 28, 1976)^[20]
• Theater in America: Who's Happy Now, from the Mark Taper Forum^[20]
• Theater in America: The Year of the Dragon, from The American Place Theatre^[20]
• Dance in America: Pennsylvania Ballet^[21]
• Dance in America: Martha Graham Dance Company^[21]
• Theater in America: The Patriots, from Asolo Theatre Company (May 26, 1976)^[22]
• Theater in America: The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, with the Old Globe Theater (June 16, 1976)^[23][21]
• Live from Lincoln Center: Swan Lake (June 30, 1976)
• Leonard Bernstein Conducts Music from America (NY Philharmonic at Royal Albert Hall) (July 12, 1976)

Season 4 (1976–77)

• Theater in America: Ah! Wilderness (October 12, 1976)^[24][25]
• Fine Music Specials: Madama Butterfly (October 20, 1976)^[26]
• Live from Lincoln Center: The Barber of Seville (November 3, 1976)
• Theater in America: The Taming of the Shrew, from the American Conservatory Theater (November 10, 1976)^[24][27]
• Live from Lincoln Center: New York Philharmonic with Rafael Kubelik and Claudio Arrau (November 20, 1976)
• Live from Lincoln Center: André Watts in Recital (November 28, 1976)
• Solti Conducts Mendelssohn (December 15, 1976)^[7]
• Chester Mystery Plays (December 22, 1976)^[28]
• Secret Service by William Gillette, from the Phoenix Theatre (January 12, 1977)^[24]
• Arthur Rubinstein at 90 (January 26, 1977)^[29]
• episode featuring Mstislav Rostropovich (March 30, 1977)^[30]
• Theater in America: The Prince of Homburg from the Chelsea Theater Center (April 27, 1977)^[31]
• Dance in America: Pilobolus Dance Theater (May 4, 1977)^[32]
• Hard Times (starting May 11, 1977)^[33]
• Live from Lincoln Center: Giselle (June 2, 1977)
• Theater in America: End of Summer by S. N. Behrman, from the Charles MacArthur Center for American Theater (June 15, 1977)^[34]
• Abide with Me (July 12, 1977)^[35]

Season 5 (1977–78)

• Live from Lincoln Center: New York Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta and Shirley Verrett (September 24, 1977)
• Live from Lincoln Center: Manon (October 18, 1977)
• Live from Lincoln Center: New York Philharmonic with Erich Leinsdorf and André Watts (October 29, 1977)
• The Royal Family (November 9, 1977)^[36]
• Verna: USO Girl (January 25, 1978)
• Live from Lincoln Center: Coppélia (January 31, 1978)
• Live from Lincoln Center: Luciano Pavarotti in Recital at the Metropolitan Opera House (February 12, 1978)
• Count Dracula (March 1, 1978)
• Live from Lincoln Center: The Saint of Bleecker Street (April 19, 1978)
• Live from Lincoln Center: American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House (May 17, 1978)
• Theater in America: Uncommon Women and Others (May 24, 1978)

Season 6 (1978–79)

• Out of Our Father's House (August 2, 1978)
• Live from Lincoln Center: New York Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta and Rudolf Serkin (September 20, 1978)
• Live from Lincoln Center: The Turk in Italy (October 4, 1978)
• Theater in America: The Good Doctor (November 8, 1978)
• Mourning Becomes Electra (December 6, 1978 to January 3, 1979)^[37]
• Live from Lincoln Center: Chamber Music Society with Itzhak Perlman (December 10, 1978)
• Theater in America: When Hell Freezes Over, I'll Skate, conceived by Vinnette Justine Carroll with music by Cleavant Derricks and Clinton Derricks-Carroll, from the Urban Arts Corps^[38]

Season 7 (1979–1980)

• Musical Comedy Tonight, hosted by Sylvia Fine Kaye (October 1, 1979)^[39]
• The Five Forty-Eight (November 7, 1979)
• The Most Happy Fella (March 5, 1980)^[40]
• Samuel Beckett's Happy Days (June 25, 1980)

Season 8 (1980–81)

• Life on the Mississippi (November 24, 1980)
• Beverly! Her Farewell Performance (January 5, 1981)
• Great Performances at the Met: "L'Elisir D'Amore" (March 2, 1981)
• Rhapsody and Song – A Tribute to George Gershwin (May 9, 1981)^[41]
• The Girls in their Summer Dresses and Other Stories (June 1, 1981)

Season 9 (1981–82)

• Norma (September 20, 1981)
• La Clemenza di Tito (October 19, 1981)
• The House of Mirth (November 2, 1981)^[42]
• Summer (November 9, 1981)^[42]
• Edith Wharton: Looking Back (November 16, 1981)^[42]
• Brideshead Revisited (January 18, 1982)

Season 10 (1982–83)

• Great Performances' 10th Anniversary Celebration (December 6, 1982)
• The Regard of Flight by Bill Irwin (February 7, 1983)^[43]
• Ellington: The Music Lives On (March 7, 1983)^[43]
• The Innocents Abroad (May 9, 1983)
• Festival! Spoleto USA (June 27, 1983)^[43]

Season 11 (1983–84)

• Princess Grace Remembered (September 26, 1983)^[43]
• Alice in Wonderland (October 3, 1983)^[43]
• Callas: An International Celebration (December 11, 1983)
• An American Christmas (December 19, 1983)^[43]
• The Magic Flute (January 9, 1984)
• La Cenerentola (February 6, 1984)
• Choreographer's Notebook: Stravinsky Piano Ballets by Peter Martins (February 13, 1984)
• The Soldier's Tale, directed by R. O. Blechman (March 19, 1984)^[43]

Season 12 (1984–85)

• Dance in America: Baryshnikov by Tharp (October 5, 1984)
• The Dining Room (October 19, 1984)^[43]
• You Can't Take It With You (November 21, 1984)^[43]
• Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music (December 7, 1984)
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1985 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1985)^[44]
• Dance Black America, directed by D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus (January 25, 1985)^[43]
• Judy Garland: The Concert Years (March 22, 1985)^[43]
• Heartbreak House (April 24, 1985)^[45]
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (May 3, 1985)^[43]
• Taking My Turn (May 10, 1985)^[43]
• The Best of Broadway (May 24, 1985)^[46]
• Orpheus (June 7, 1985)^[47]
• Ulysses (June 14, 1985)^[47]
• The Coronation of Poppea (June 21, 1985)^[47]

Season 13 (1985–86)

• Doctor Fischer of Geneva (October 11, 1985)
• Three by Three (October 18, 1985)
• Laurence Olivier—A Life (October 25–31, 1985)^[48]
• The Gospel at Colonus (November 8, 1985)^[43]
• Master Harold...and the Boys (November 15, 1985)^[43]
• Sylvia Fine Kaye's Musical Comedy Tonight III (The Spark and the Glue) (November 22, 1985)
• The Importance of Being Earnest (November 29, 1985)
• San Francisco Ballet in Cinderella (December 7, 1985)
• Falstaff (December 13, 1985)
• Rossini at Versailles (December 27, 1985)
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1986 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1986)^[44]
• On the Razzle (January 3, 1986)
• (January 14, 1986)
• Heartbreak House (January 24, 1986)^[43]
• Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera (January 31, 1986)^[43]
• The Cotton Club Remembered (February 7, 1986)
• Irving Berlin's America (March 7, 1986)
• Follies in Concert (March 14, 1986)
• Cavalleria Rusticana (March 21, 1986)
• Bernstein Conducts Haydn's Mass in Time of War (March 28, 1986)
• Elektra (April 11, 1986)
• Early Days (April 18, 1986)
• Dance in America: Choreography by Jerome Robbins with the New York City Ballet (May 2, 1986)
• Grown Ups by Jules Feiffer (May 9, 1986)^[43]
• Boxes: With the Sydney Dance Company (May 16, 1986)
• Bernstein on Brahms: Reflections and Performance [three parts] (May 23; May 30; June 6, 1986)

Season 14 (1986–87)

• (September 15, 1986)
• Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis (October 17, 1986)^[43]
• Gian Carlo Menotti: The Musical Magician (November 21, 1986)^[43]
• Goya, by Gian Carlo Menotti (November 28, 1986)^[43]
• (December 16, 1986)
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1987 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1987)^[44]
• The Silents: The Thief of Bagdad (January 9, 1987)
• In Memory Of... (January 16, 1987)^[49]
• (January 21, 1987)
• Monsignor Quixote (February 13, 1987)
• James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (March 13, 1987)^[43]
• Broadway Sings the Music of Jule Styne (March 20, 1987)^[43]
• Ozawa, directed by Albert and David Maysles (March 27, 1987)^[43]
• The Comedy of Errors (April 1, 1987)
• Steve Reich: A New Musical Language (April 10, 1987)^[43]
• Seize the Day (May 1, 1987)^[43]
• Vladimir Horowitz: The Last Romantic, directed by Albert and David Maysles (May 22, 1987)^[43]

Season 15 (1987–88)

• The Music Makers: An ASCAP Celebration of American Music at Wolf Trap^[43]
• Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson (November 6, 1987)^[43]
• Tales from the Hollywood Hills: A Table at Ciro's (November 13, 1987)^[43]
• Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Pat Hobby Teamed with Genius (November 20, 1987)^[43]
• Celebrating Gershwin (November 27 and December 4, 1987)^[43]
• Christmas with Flicka (December 18, 1987)^[43]
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1988 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1988)^[44]
• Toscanini: The Maestro (January 8, 1988)^[43]
• Wolf Trap Salutes Dizzy Gillespie: A Tribute to the Jazz Master (February 26, 1988)^[43]
• Bacall on Bogart (March 11, 1988)^[43]
• Nixon in China (April 15, 1988)^[43]
• The Silents: Our Hospitality (May 13, 1988)

Season 16 (1988–89)

• Tales from the Hollywood Hills: The Old Reliable (November 4, 1988)^[43]
• Tales from the Hollywood Hills: The Golden Land (November 11, 1988)^[43]
• Tales from the Hollywood Hills: The Closed Set (November 18, 1988)^[43]
• The Silents: The Eagle (November 25, 1988)
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1989 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1989)[8]
• Wynton Marsalis Blues and Swing (February 24, 1989)^[43]
• Canciones de Mi Padre (March 3, 1989)^[43]
• Bernstein at 70 (March 19, 1989)^[43]
• The New Moon (April 7, 1989)^[43]
• The Philadelphia Orchestra at Wolf Trap (May 26, 1989)^[43]
• The Aspern Papers (June 9, 1989)^[43]
• Tap Dance in America

Season 17 (1989–1990)

• Show Boat (October 27, 1989)^[43]
• Our Town (November 2, 1989)^[43]
• An Evening with Alan Jay Lerner (November 24, 1989)^[43]
• L'Africaine, from the San Francisco Opera (December 15, 1989)^[43]
• Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts Miami's New World Orchestra (December 29, 1989)^[43]
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1990 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1990)^[44]
• The Silents: Broken Blossoms (January 26, 1990)
• Music by Richard Rodgers (March 8, 1990)^[43]
• Solti's Beethoven: The Fifth Symphony Revisited (March 23, 1990)^[43]
• Largo desolato, from the Wilma Theater (April 20, 1990)^[43]
• The Orchestra, directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński (April 27, 1990)^[43]

Season 18 (1990–91)

• Spike & Co.: Do It Acapella
• Swinging Out Live
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1991 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1991)^[44]
• The Colored Museum
• The Fred Astaire Songbook
• A Masked Ball

Season 19 (1991–92)

• Dance in America: Everybody Dance Now
• Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio
• La Pastorela: The Sheperd's Tale
• Pavarotti and the Italian Tenor
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1992 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1992)^[44]
• Unforgettable... with Love (March 7, 1992)
• The Lost Language of Cranes (June 24, 1992)

Season 20 (1992–93)

• Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway
• The Common Pursuit
• Guys and Dolls off the Record
• Placido Domingo: The Concert for Planet Earth
• José Carreras, Diana Ross and Placido Domingo: Christmas in Vienna
• The Hard Nut
• The Symphony of Rhythm: Solti Conducts Beethoven's Seventh
• Tosca From Rome
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1993 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1993)^[44]
• Suddenly Last Summer
• Black and Blue
• Miles Davis: A Tribute
• Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
• John Barry's Moviola
• Nureyev
• Oedipus rex
• The Real McTeague: A Synthesis of Forms
• In the Wings: Angels in America on Broadway
• Lean by Jarre

Season 21 (1993–94)

• The Maestros of Philadelphia
• The Sorceress
• Passing the Baton
• Pete Townshend's PsychoDerelict (December 1, 1993)
• On the Town in Concert
• Leonard Bernstein: The Gift of Music
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1994 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1994)^[44]
• Turandot
• Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Bowl!
• Vladimir Horowitz: A Reminiscence
• Quartet
• The Songs of Six Families
• Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters
• La Bohéme
• El Gato Montes

Season 22 (1994–95)

• Carnegie Hall Opening Night 1994
• The Dangerous Liaisons
• Paddy Chayefsky's `The Mother'
• The World of Jim Henson
• Natalie Cole's Untraditional Traditional Christmas
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1995 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1995)^[44]
• The Music of Kurt Weill: September Songs
• Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II
• Talking With...
• Legendary Maestros: The Art of Conducting

Season 23 (1995–96)

• Carnegie Hall Opening Night 1995
• Music for the Movies: The Hollywood Sound
• Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler's House
• Pavarotti: My World
• Julie Andrews: Back on Broadway
• The Sleeping Beauty
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1996 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1996)^[44]
• The Rake's Progress
• Les Misérables in Concert (March 1, 1996)
• Peter, Paul & Mary: Lifelines
• La Cenerentola
• Divas!

Season 24 (1996–97)

• Carnegie Hall Opening Night 1996
• Dance in America: The Wrecker's Ball—Three Dances by Paul Taylor
• Dido and Aeneas
• Musicals Great Musicals: The Arthur Freed Unit at MGM
• Bobby McFerrin: Loosely Mozart: The New Innovators of Classical Music
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1997 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1997)^[44]
• Thomas Hampson: I Hear America Singing
• Robert Altman's Jazz '34
• The Story of Gospel Music
• Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
• Emmeline
• Burt Bacharach: This Is Now

Season 25 (1997–98)

• Carnegie Hall Opening Night 1997
• Henry V at Shakespeare's Globe
• The Music of Kander and Ebb: Razzle Dazzle
• San Francisco Opera Gala Celebration
• The College of Comedy With Alan King
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1998 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1998)^[44]
• Creating Ragtime
• Porgy & Bess: An American Voice
• The New Jersey Performing Arts Center Opening Night Gala
• Frank Sinatra: The Very Good Years
• The Art of Singing: Golden Voices, Silver Screen
• Dance In America: Variety and Virtuosity: American Ballet Theatre Now
• Swan Lake
• Sam Shepard's True West
• Sam Shepard: Stalking Himself
• The Elixir of Love

Season 26 (1998–99)

• Carnegie Hall Opening Night 1998
• Zizi: Je T'Aime
• Cats
• Pavarotti & Friends
• "A Streetcar Named Desire" from the San Francisco Opera
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1999 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1999)^[44]
• The Rodgers & Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty
• The Noël Coward Story
• Star Crossed Lovers
• Swingin' with Duke: The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
• Turandot at the Forbidden City
• The Making Of: Turandot at the Forbidden City
• Parsifal: The Search for the Grail

Season 27 (1999–2000)

• Carnegie Hall Opening Night 1999
• Crazy for You
• Burn the Floor
• My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies
• Andrea Bocelli: Sacred Arias
• Dance in America: Le Corsaire with American Ballet Theatre
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2000 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 2000)^[44]
• Central Park
• Aida's Brothers and Sisters: Black Voices in Opera
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• College of Comedy with Alan King, Part II
• Berlin Philharmonic Europakonzert: Ode to Joy 2000
• The Art of Piano
• Play On!
• La Forza del Destino
• Can't Stop Now, a documentary on Nederlands Dans Theater III
• 'La Traviata' from Paris
• Berlin Philharmonic Europakonzert: From Krakow

Season 28 (2000–01)

• Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2000
• Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens, A Life in Animation
• Paul Simon: You're the One---In Concert from Paris
• From Mao to Mozart: Then and Now
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2001 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 2001)^[44]
• Copland's America
• The College of Comedy with Alan King III
• My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs
• Elizabeth Taylor: England's Other Elizabeth
• Don Giovanni Unmasked
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Don Quixote
• Dance in America: Free to Dance
• Three Mo' Tenors in Concert
• Recording `The Producers': A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
• `Little Women' from Houston Grand Opera

Season 29 (2001–02)

• Recording 'The Producers': A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
• 'Little Women' from Houston Grand Opera
• Dance in America: Holo Mai Pele
• Joshua Bell: West Side Story Suite From Central Park
• Alessandro Safina in Concert: Only You
• Wheel of Life
• The Art of Violin
• 'The Nutcracker' from the Royal Ballet
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2002 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 2002)^[44]
• Dance in America: From Broadway: Fosse
• Kurosawa
• The Queen's Jubilee Gala: Live from Buckingham Palace
• Romeo and Juliet
• Berlin Philharmonic Europakonzert: From Istanbul

Season 30 (2002–03)

• (September 24, 2002)
• Making 'The Misfits'
• Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2002
• Natalie Cole: Ask a Woman Who Knows
• Josh Groban in Concert
• 'The Merry Widow' from the San Francisco Opera (December 25, 2002)
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2002 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 2003)^[44]
• (January 21, 2003)
• Dance in America: Born to Be Wild
• Kiss Me, Kate
• The Great American Songbook
• Renee Fleming and Bryn Terfel: Music Under the Stars
• (March 25, 2003)
• (April 8, 2003)
• 30th Anniversary: A Celebration in Song
• Duetto: The Concert at the Roman Colosseum
• Dance in America: Lar Lubovitch's 'Othello'
• The Three Pickers: Legends of American Music
• Elton John at the Royal Opera House
• Berlin Philharmonic Europakonzert: From Palermo

Season 31 (2003–04)

• The Los Angeles Philharmonic Inaugurates Walt Disney Concert Hall (October 29, 2003)
• Rodgers & Hammerstein's 'Oklahoma!'
• Berlin Philharmonic Europakonzert: From Lisbon (December 10, 2003)
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2004 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 2004)^[44]
• Degas and the Dance
• Dance in America: Acts of Ardor: Two Dances by Paul Taylor (January 28, 2004)
• (February 10, 2004)
• Harry Connick Jr.: Only You (March 1, 2004)
• Concert for George
• Dance in America: 'The Dream' with American Ballet Theatre
• Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in Performance: The San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas
• Keeping Score: MTT on Music: The Making of a Performance, Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony
• All-Star Piano Extravaganza: The Verbier Festival Concert
• From the Acropolis: A Salute to the Games with the Berlin Philharmonic

Season 32 (2004–05)

• John Lennon's Jukebox
• Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2004
• Eric Clapton: Crossroads Guitar Festival
• Josh Groban: Live at the Greek
• Hayley Westenra in Concert
• Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
• Bill Irwin: Clown Prince
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2005 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 2005)^[44]
• Leonard Bernstein's 'Candide' with the New York Philharmonic
• Andrea Bocelli: Tribute on Ice
• One Night with Rod Stewart
• The Little Prince
• Operatunity
• Dance in America: 'Swan Lake' with American Ballet Theatre
• Cook, Dixon & Young in Concert
• From Shtetl to Swing

Season 33 (2005–06)

• Renee Fleming: Sacred Songs and Carols
• Cream Reunion Concert
• Michael Bublé: Caught in the Act
• My Name Is Barbra
• The Nightingale
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2006 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 2006)^[44]
• Paul McCartney: Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road
• Andrea Bocelli: Amore Under the Desert Sky
• 'South Pacific' in Concert from Carnegie Hall
• Dance in America: Beyond the Steps---Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
• Garrison Keillor's Independence Day Special: A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood
• Bruce Springsteen: The Seeger Sessions Live at St. Luke's
• Vittorio: Dreams of Rome
• Dance in America: 'Jewels' from the Paris Opera Ballet
• The Vienna State Opera: 50th Anniversary Reopening Concert
• Mozart at 250: The Salzburg Festival Celebration

Season 34 (2006–07)

• Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2006
• A Tribute to James Taylor
• Beverly Sills: Made in America
• Garrison Keillor's New Year's Eve Special
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2007 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 2007)^[44]
• Sting: Songs From the Labyrinth
• Jerry Lee Lewis: Last Man Standing
• Loreena McKennitt: Nights From the Alhambra
• Barenboim on Beethoven
• We Love Ella! A Tribute to the First Lady of Song
• Dance in America: Dancing in the Light
• Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story
• Lionel Richie: Live in Paris
• Nureyev: The Russian Years

Season 35 (2007–08)

• The Israel Philharmonic 70th Anniversary Gala Concert
• Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival Chicago
• Vivere: Andrea Bocelli Live in Tuscany
• Great Performances at the Met: Viewers' Choice
• 'Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny' From LA Opera
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2008 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 2008)^[44]
• Carnegie Hall Celebrates Berlin
• Company
• The New York Philharmonic Live From North Korea
• Martina McBride: Live in Concert
• James Taylor: One Man Band
• Peter & the Wolf
• Dance in America: Wolf Trap's Face of America
• Primo
• Maestro: Portrait of Valery Gergiev

Season 36 (2008–09)

• Pavarotti: A Life in Seven Arias
• Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2008: A Celebration of Leonard Bernstein
• Hitman: David Foster and Friends
• Domingo, Netrebko & Villazon: Three Stars in Vienna
• Dance in America: San Francisco Ballet's `Nutcracker'
• Doctor Atomic Great Performances Live from the Met (December 2008)
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2009 hosted by Julie Andrews (January 1, 2009)^[44]
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• The Police: Certifiable
• King Lear
• 'In the Heights': Chasing Broadway Dreams (May 27, 2009 and November 10, 2017)
• Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood:Live from Madison Square Garden (May 30, 2009)
• Stevie Wonder: Live at Last
• 'Chess' in Concert
• Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebration From Madison Square Garden

Season 37 (2009–2010)

• Harlem in Montmartre
• Karajan or Beauty As I See It
• Vienna Philharmonic Summer Concert 2009
• Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic: The Inaugural Concert
• Sting: A Winter's Tale
• Andrea Bocelli & David Foster: My Christmas
• La Bohème
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2010 hosted by Julie Andrews (January 1, 2010)^[50]
• Passing Strange
• Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden
• Dance in America: 'NY Export: Opus Jazz'
• Hamlet
• La Danse
• Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2010
• Renée Fleming & Dmitri Hvorostovsky: A Musical Odyssey in St. Petersburg
• Macbeth

Season 38 (2010–11)

• Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Pierre Boulez Conducts Mahler's 7th
• Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
• Celebracion: Gustavo Dudamel and the L.A. Phil With Juan Diego Florez
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2011 hosted by Paula Zahn (January 1, 2011)^[51]
• Harry Connick, Jr. In Concert on Broadway
• Hitman Returns: David Foster & Friends
• Billy Joel: Live at Shea Stadium
• Jackie Evancho: Dream With Me in Concert
• Carnegie Hall 120th Anniversary Concert
• Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival 3
• Rigoletto From Mantua
• Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night 2011
• A Concert for New York
• Placido Domingo: My Favorite Roles

Season 39 (2011–12)

• Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk...A Celebration of New Orleans Blues
• Miami City Ballet Dances Balanchine and Tharp
• Il Postino From LA Opera
• Andrea Bocelli Live in Central Park
• The Little Mermaid From San Francisco Ballet
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2012 hosted by Julie Andrews (January 1, 2012)^[52]
• Herbie Hancock, Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Celebrate Gershwin
• Let Me Down Easy by Anna Deavere Smith
• Tony Bennett Duets II
• Memphis
• The Phantom of the Opera at Royal Albert Hall
• The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater
• San Francisco Symphony at 100
• Twilight: Los Angeles
• Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration
• Jackie Evancho: Music of the Movies
• Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2012

Season 40 (2012–13)

• Paul McCartney's Live Kisses
• Great Performances at the Met: Wagner's Ring Cycle (September 11–14, 2012)
• Rod Stewart: Merry Christmas, Baby
• Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
• The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2013 hosted by Julie Andrews (January 1, 2013)^[53]
• Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy
• Paul Simon's Graceland Journey
• Great Performances at the Met: L'Elisir d'Amore
• Great Performances at the Met: Otello
• Andrea Bocelli: Love In Portofino
• Great Performances at the Met: The Tempest
• Paul Taylor Dance Company in Paris
• 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
• Great Performances at the Met: Francesca da Rimini
• Great Performances at the Met: Giulio Cesare
• Dancing at Jacob's Pillow: Never Stand Still
• Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2013

Season 41 (2013–14)

• The Hollow Crown: Richard II
• The Hollow Crown: Henry IV, Part 1
• The Hollow Crown: Henry IV, Part 2
• The Hollow Crown: Henry V
• Great Performances' 40th Anniversary Celebration
• Moby-Dick From San Francisco Opera
• Stephen Sondheim's 'Company' With the New York Philharmonic
• Barbra Steisand: Back to Brooklyn
• Pavarotti: A Voice for the Ages
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2014 hosted by Julie Andrews (January 1, 2014)^[54]
• Great Performances at the Met: Eugene Onegin
• Barrymore
• National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage
• Sting: The Last Ship
• Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs: The Dukes of September
• Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers Featuring Edie Brickell in Concert
• Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
• The Dave Clark Five: Glad All Over, A Great Performances Special
• Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty

Season 42 (2014–15)

• Dudamel Conducts the Verdi Requiem at the Hollywood Bowl
• Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2014
• Rejoice With Itzhak Perlman
• Star-Spangled Spectacular: The Bicentennial of Our National Anthem
• Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek Live!
• Cats
• Encore! Great Performances at the Met
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2015 hosted by Julie Andrews (January 1, 2015)^[55]
• American Voices With Renée Fleming
• La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema
• Bryan Adams in Concert
• Mark Morris Dance Group: L'Allegro
• Annie Lennox: Nostalgia Live in Concert
• Boston Symphony Orchestra: Andris Nelsons Inaugural Concert
• Driving Miss Daisy (July 17, 2015)^[56]
• Dudamel Conducts a John Williams Celebration With the LA Phil
• Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2015

Season 43 (2015–16)

• Billy Elliot the Musical Live
• Chita Rivera: A Lot of Livin' to Do
• Andrea Bocelli: Cinema
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2016 hosted by Julie Andrews (January 1, 2016)^[57]
• Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration
• Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2016

Season 44 (2016–17)

• Grammy Salute to Music Legends (October 14, 2016)
• Hamilton's America with Lin-Manuel Miranda (October 21, 2016)
• Gypsy (November 11, 2016)
• The Hollow Crown: Henry VI, Part I (December 16, 2016)
• The Hollow Crown: Henry VI, Part II (December 18, 2016)
• The Hollow Crown: Richard III (December 25, 2016)
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2017 hosted by Julie Andrews (January 1, 2017)^[58]
• Bel Canto the Opera (January 13, 2017)
• Alicia Keys – Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special
• Brad Paisley – Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special
• New York City Ballet in Paris (February 17, 2017)
• New York City Ballet Symphony in C (February 24, 2017)
• Dudamel Conducts Tangos Under the Stars with the LA Phil (March 30, 2017)
• Young Men, a ballet by BalletBoyz
• GP at the Met: Romeo et Juliette (April 13, 2017)
• GP at the Met: Nabucco (May 7, 2017)
• GP at the Met: Rusalka (June 18, 2017)
• Andrea Bocelli – Landmarks Live in Concert (June 30, 2017)
• Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2017

Season 45 (2017–18)

• Havana Time Machine (October 6, 2017)
• Grammy Music Legends 2017 (October 13, 2017)
• She Loves Me (October 20, 2017)
• Noël Coward's Present Laughter (November 3, 2017)
• Foo Fighters Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special (November 10, 2017)^[59]
• Indecent (November 17, 2017)
• Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn (November 24, 2017)
• The Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed Live (November 25, 2017)
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2018 hosted by Hugh Bonneville (January 1, 2018)^[60]
• GP at the Met: Norma (January 26, 2018)
• Nas Live from the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip Hop (February 2, 2018)
• Movies For Grownups Awards with AARP the Magazine (February 23, 2018)
• GP at the Met: The Exterminating Angel (March 25, 2018)
• Will.i.am and Friends featuring the Black Eyed Peas– Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special (April 20, 2018)
• GP at the Met: L'Elisir D'Amore (April 29, 2018)
• The Opera House
• GP at the Met: Tosca
• Ellis Island: The Dream of America with Pacific Symphony
• GP at the Met: Semiramide
• GP at the Met: Così fan tutte
• The Chris Botti Band in Concert
• Chicago Voices
• GP at the Met: Luisa Miller
• Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2018
• GP at the Met: Cendrillon

Season 46 (2018–19)

• Grammy Salute to Music Legends 2018 (October 5, 2018)
• An American in Paris The Musical
• John Leguizamo's Road to Broadway
• The Sound of Music Live (November 9, 2018)^[61]
• Michael Bublé: Tour Stop 148
• Harold Prince: The Director's Life
• Tony Bennett & Diana Krall: Love is Here to Stay
• k.d. lang – Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special
• Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
• From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2019 hosted by Hugh Bonneville (January 1, 2019)^[62]
• The Cleveland Orchestra Centennial Celebration
• Orphée et Eurydice From Lyric Opera of Chicago
• Movies for Grownups Awards 2019 With AARP the Magazine
• Doubt From Minnesota Opera
• Great Performances at the Met: Marnie
• Julius Caesar from Donmar
• Andrea Bocelli @ 60
• Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration
• Birgit Nilsson: A League of Her Own
• Great Performances at the Met: Samson Et Dalila
• Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata
• Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2019 (August 9, 2018)^[63]

Season 47 (2019–2020)

• Now Hear This "Vivaldi: Something Completely Different" (September 20, 2019)
• Now Hear This "The Riddle of the Bach" (September 27, 2019)
• Now Hear This "Scarlatti: Man Out of Time" (October 4, 2019)
• Now Hear This "Handel: Italian Style" (October 11, 2019)
• GRAMMY Salute to Music Legends (October 18, 2019)
• Broadway's Best: 42nd Street (November 1, 2019)
• Broadway's Best: Rodger & Hammerstein's The King and I (November 8, 2019)
• Broadway's Best: Red (November 15, 2019)
• Broadway's Best: Much Ado About Nothing (November 22, 2019)
• Broadway's Best: Kinky Boots (November 29, 2019)
• Broadway's Best: Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (November 30, 2019)
• An Intimate Evening with David Foster (November 30, 2019)
• From Vienna; The New Year's Celebration 2020 hosted by Hugh Bonneville (January 1, 2020)
• Great Performances at the Met: Manon (January 5, 2020)
• Movies for Grownup Awards with AARP The Magazine 2020 (January 19, 2020)
• Great Performances at the Met: Madama Butterfly (February 2, 2020)
• Great Performances at the Met: Turandot (March 20, 2020)
• Great Performances at the Met: Akhnaten (April 5, 2020)
• Andrea Bocelli: Music for Hope (April 14, 2020)
• Great Performances at the Met: Wozzeck (May 3, 2020)
• LA Phil 100 (May 8, 2020)
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Leonard Bernstein's 'Mass' (May 15, 2020)
• Great Performances at the Met: Agrippina (June 7, 2020)
• Ann (June 19, 2020)
• Gloria: A Life (June 26, 2020)
• Great Performances at the Met: Der Fliegende Holländer (July 5, 2020)
• Great Performances at the Met: The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess (July 17, 2020)
• Great Performances at the Met: Tosca (August 2, 2020)
• Great Performances at the Met: Maria Stuarda (September 6, 2020)

Season 48 (2020–21)

• Romeo & Juliet (September 11, 2020)
• Now Hear This "Haydn: The King of Strings" (September 18, 2020)
• Now Hear This: The Schubert Generation (September 25, 2020)
• Now Hear This: Becoming Mozart (October 2, 2020)
• GRAMMY Salute to Music Legends (October 16, 2020)
• One Man, Two Guvnors (November 6, 2020)
• Fiddler: Miracle of Miracles (November 13, 2020)
• Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn (November 20, 2020)
• Lea Salonga In Concert (November 27, 2020)
• From Vienna; The New Year's Celebration 2021 hosted by Hugh Bonneville (January 1, 2021)

Season 49 (2021–22)

• Yannick -- An Artist's Journey (September 3, 2021)
• Verdi's Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11 (September 11, 2021)
• The Red Shoes (September 17, 2021)
• Great Performances at the Met: Sondra Radvanovsky & Piotr Beczala in Concert (October 1, 2021)
• Great Performances at the Met: Three Divas at Versailles (October 8, 2021)
• Now Hear This: Beethoven's Ghost (October 29, 2021)
• Great Performances at the Met: Wagnerians in Concert (November 5, 2021)
• A John Williams Premiere at Tanglewood (November 12, 2021)
• San Francisco Symphony Reopening Night (November 19, 2021)
• Coppelia (November 26, 2021)
• Unforgettable... with Love (November 27, 2021)
• Great Performances at the Met: Bryn Terfel & Friends in Concert (December 3, 2021)
• Great Performances at the Met: New Year's Eve Gala (December 31, 2021)
• From Vienna; The New Year's Celebration 2022 hosted by Hugh Bonneville (January 1, 2022)
• Reopening: The Broadway Revival (January 18, 2022)
• Great Performances at the Met: Boris Godunov
• Great Performances at the Met: Eurydice (March 6, 2022)
• Movies for Grownups Awards With AARP the Magazine (March 18, 2022)
• The Conductor (March 25, 2022)
• Great Performances at the Met: Fire Shut Up in My Bones (April 1, 2022)
• Now Hear This: Amy Beach Rise to Prominence (April 8, 2022)
• Now Hear This "Florence Price and the American Migration"(April 15, 2022)
• Now Hear This: Aaron Copland/ Dean of American Music (April 22, 2022)
• Now Hear This: "New American Voices" (April 29, 2022)
• Great Performances at the Met: Cinderella (May 8, 2022)
• Anything Goes (May 13, 2022)
• Merry Wives (May 20, 2022)
• Keeping Company with Sondheim (May 27, 2022)
• Great Performances at the Met: Rigoletto (June 17, 2022)
• Great Performances at the Met: Ariadne Auf Naxos (July 3, 2022)
• Great Performances at the Met: Don Carlos (August 7, 2022)
• Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2022 (August 26, 2022)
• Great Performances at the Met: Turandot (September 4, 2022)

Season 50 (2022–23)

• Black Lucy and The Bard (September 16, 2022)
• Intimate Apparel (September 23, 2022)
• Great Performances at the Met: Lucia Di Lammermoor (October 2, 2022)
• NY Phil Reopening of David Geffen Hall (November 4, 2022)
• Great Performances at the Met: Hamlet (November 6, 2022)
• Josh Groban's Great Big Radio City Show (November 25, 2022)
• From Vienna; The New Year's Celebration 2023 hosted by Hugh Bonneville (January 1, 2023)
• Movies for Grownups® Awards 2023 with AARP The Magazine (February 17, 2023)
• The Magic of Spirituals (February 24, 2023)
• Remember This (March 13, 2023)
• Great Performances at the Met: The Hours (March 17, 2023)
• Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata (April 2, 2023)
• Now Hear This “Piazzolla’s History with Tango” (April 7, 2023)
• Now Hear This “Schumann: Genius and Madness” (April 14, 2023)
• Now Hear This “Andy Akiho Found (his) Sound” (April 21, 2023)
• Now Hear This “Albéniz: Portraits of Spain” (April 28, 2023)
• Great Performances at the Met: Fedora (May 7, 2023)
• Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best (May 12, 2023)
• Richard III (May 19, 2023; recorded in July 2022 in Central Park)
• Great Performances at the Met: Medea (June 16, 2023)
• Great Performances at the Met: Lohengrin (July 9, 2023)
• Great Performances at the Met: Falstaff (August 6, 2023)
• Leonard Bernstein's Kaddish Symphony (August 21, 2023)
• Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2023 (August 25, 2023)
• Great Performances at the Met: Der Rosenkavalier (September 10, 2023)

Season 51 (2023–24)

• Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni (October 1, 2023)
• New York City Ballet in Madrid (October 27, 2023)
• Message in a Bottle (November 3, 2023)
• Great Performances at the Met: Champion (November 5, 2023)
• Great Performances at the Met: Die Zauberflote (December 10, 2023)
• From Vienna; The New Year's Celebration 2024 hosted by Hugh Bonneville (January 1, 2024)
• George Jones Tribute: Still Playin’ Possum (February 23, 2023)

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