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Season 49 – Great Performances

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The performing arts anthology series brings best from the worlds of music and dance into viewers' living rooms. From classical music and opera to ballet and musical theater, cameras capture the stage performances of some of the best artists in the world.

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Great Performances — Season 49

Great Performances — Season 49

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Episode 1 Aired Sep 3, 2021 Yannick -- An Artist's Journey The rise to prominence of conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director of The Metropolitan Opera. Details Episode 2 Aired Sep 11, 2021 Verdi's Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11 A special performance of the Verdi Requiem to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks; hosted by Misty Copeland. Details Episode 3 Aired Sep 17, 2021 The Red Shoes Director-choreographer Matthew Bourne presents a stage adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Red Shoes," featuring Ashley Shaw, Adam Cooper, Dominic North and Michela Meazza. Details Episode 4 Aired Oct 29, 2021 Now Hear This: Beethoven's Ghost Violinist Scott Yoo and fellow musicians undertake a recording of Beethoven's most personal music at a historic manor in the Berkshires. Details Episode 5 Aired Nov 12, 2021 A John Williams Premiere at Tanglewood Composer John Williams returns to the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home at Tanglewood for a performance of his classical works as well as a new violin concerto for Anne-Sophie Mutter. Details Episode 6 Aired Nov 19, 2021 San Francisco Symphony Reopening Night The opening night of the San Francisco Symphony's 110th season features music by John Adams, Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter and performances by Alonzo King LINES Ballet. Details Episode 7 Aired Nov 26, 2021 Coppelia Live action dance and animation tell the story of a plastic surgeon whose quest to build the perfect robot woman threatens the lives of a young couple who fall under his spell. Details Episode 8 Aired Mar 13, 1974 In Fashion Presentations of the performing arts. Details Episode 8 Aired Jan 1, 2022 From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2022 Ringing in the New Year with the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna City Ballet at the Musikverein; host Hugh Bonneville. Details Episode 9 Aired Jan 18, 2022 Reopening -- The Broadway Revival A behind-the-scenes look at Broadway as shows reunite, rehearse and re-stage following the shutdown due to COVID-19. Details Episode 10 Aired Mar 18, 2022 Movies for Grownups Awards With AARP the Magazine Honoring films and performances of 2021 that resonate with older viewers. Details Episode 11 Aired Mar 25, 2022 The Conductor Marin Alsop, the first woman and only conductor to receive a MacArthur Award, becomes the first female music director of a major symphony. Details Episode 12 Aired Apr 8, 2022 Now Hear This: Amy Beach: American Romantic The life and work of American Romantic composer Amy Beach. Details Episode 13 Aired Apr 15, 2022 Now Hear This: Florence Price and the American Migration Following Florence Price, one of America's first recognized Black female composers and piano virtuosos, from Little Rock, Ark., to Chicago; how West African music and European hymns inspired American popular music. Details Episode 14 Aired Apr 22, 2022 Now Hear This: Aaron Copland: Dean of American Music How the works of American classical composer Aaron Copland developed into a signature American sound drawing from his Jewish roots, modernism and folk music. Details Episode 15 Aired Apr 29, 2022 Now Hear This: New American Voices Two American composers are inspired by their Brazilian and Indian immigrant roots with influences including a Brazilian martial art dance and Indian scales and rhythms. Details Episode 16 Aired May 13, 2022 Anything Goes The 2021 London production of Cole Porter's musical "Anything Goes" features Tony Award-winners Sutton Foster and Robert Lindsay. Details Episode 17 Aired May 20, 2022 Merry Wives The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park in South Harlem presents a Shakespearean comedy about the trickster Falstaff and the wily wives who outwit him. Details Episode 18 Aired May 27, 2022 Keeping Company With Sondheim An inside look at the reimagined production of "Company" as it returns to Broadway during the COVID-19 pandemic. Details Episode 19 Aired Aug 26, 2022 Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2022 The Vienna Philharmonic's annual summer night concert featuring cellist Gautier Capucon at Austria's Schonbrunn Palace. Details
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Season Info

Director
Jeff Tudor, Matthew Bourne, Kathleen Marshall, Saheem Ali, Susan Froemke, Steven De Beul, Ben Tesseur
Network
PBS
Rating
TV-14
Genre
Music
Original Language
English
Release Date
Sep 3, 2021