Great Performances - Season 42
Episodes
E1: Star-Spangled Spectacular
John Lithgow hosts a two-hour event with Grammy-, Emmy- and Tony-winning performers, along with co-h
E2: Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE!
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE! – featuring an evening of classic jazz standards in b
E3: Cats: The Musical
This special encore presentation of the original 1998 broadcast of "Cats" on Great Performances. Let
E4: From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2015
Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the sixth time to host the festive annual New Year
E5: American Voices with Renée Fleming
World-renowned American opera singer Renée Fleming convenes a festival of special guests to celebrat
E6: GP at the Met: Le Nozze di Figaro
The season nine premiere of Great Performances at the Met is Mozart’s elegant masterpiece of marital
E7: Macbeth
Director Rupert Goold's gripping stage production of Macbeth, set in a nameless 20th-century militar
E8: Great Performances at the Met: Carmen
Acclaimed director Richard Eyre’s production of Carmen stars Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelish
E9: La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema
Conducted by Alan Gilbert, selections include music by Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Luis Bacalov, per
E10: Bryan Adams in Concert
Canadian born singer-songwriter Bryan Adams has been one of the most successful international perfor
E11: Great Performances at the Met: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Rossini’s classic comedy Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) features some of the most i
E12: Mark Morris Dance Group: L'Allegro
Choreographer Mark Morris’s signature work comes to television for the first time, hosted by Mikhail
E13: Annie Lennox: Nostalgia Live in Concert
The concert of her Grammy-nominated album features Lennox’s takes on iconic American compositions by
E14: Great Performances at the Met: Meistersinger
James Levine leads Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (“The Master-Singer of Nuremberg”) in its
E15: Great Performances at the Met: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo stars as the tortured poet unlucky in love in Offenbach’s Les Contes
E16: Boston Symphony Orchestra: Andris Nelsons' Concert
The start of BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons’ tenure with the orchestra features two of the conduc
E17: Great Performances at the Met: The Merry Widow
The lavish new staging of Lehár’s effervescent operetta The Merry Widow is the Met debut of Broadway
E18: Great Performances at the Met: Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle
Polish film director Mariusz Treliński makes his Met debut with the new production, inspired by noir
E19: Driving Miss Daisy
Alfred Uhry’s classic play is a searing, funny, and hopeful meditation on race relations in America,
E20: Dudamel Conducts a John Williams Celebration With the LA Phil
Natalie Portman hosts Dudamel Conducts a John Williams Celebration with the LA Phil on Great Perform
E21: Great Performances at the Met: La Donna Del Lago
Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez headline Rossini’s bel canto tour-de-force "La Donna del Lago"
E22: Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2015
Led by guest conductor Zubin Mehta, the world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic returns for its 12th open
E23: Great Performances at the Met: Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci
Sir David McVicar directs the first new Met production of the popular verismo double bill in 45 year