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Great Performances

Season 38

2010 • 22 Episodes

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Pierre Boulez Conducts Mahler

S38 E01 • Wednesday, Oct 27, 2010 • Oct 27

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conductor Emeritus Pierre Boulez leads the Windy City's internationally renowned orchestra in Gustav Mahler's "Symphony No. 7." The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has announced that Music Director Riccardo Muti must withdraw from fall performances due to illness. The change in conductor necessitated the change in the evening’s program to Mahler's Symphony No. 7.

Sondheim! The Birthday Concert

S38 E02 • Wednesday, Nov 24, 2010 • Nov 24

Performed on Sondheim's 80th birthday in March 2010, Great Performances presents the New York Philharmonic's salute to a true Broadway legend on November 24. Hosted by David Hyde Pierce, gathering to celebrate are acclaimed Sondheim alumni as Laura Benanti, Michael Cerveris, Victoria Clark, Joanna Gleason, Nathan Gunn, Patti LuPone, Marin Mazzie, Audra McDonald, Bernadette Peters, and many more.

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

S38 E03 • Wednesday, Dec 29, 2010 • Dec 29

The October 7 opening night concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music Director Gustavo Dudamel featuring renowned Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Actress Eva Mendes hosts the broadcast.

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2011

S38 E04 • Saturday, Jan 1, 2011 • Jan 1

Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns to host the annual New Year's celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of Mariss Jansons from Vienna's Musikverein. The famed Vienna Boys' Choir will add their celestial voices to the gala

Great Performances at the Met: Don Pasquale

S38 E05 • Wednesday, Jan 5, 2011 • Jan 5

Anna Netrebko revives her sensational turn in this sophisticated bel canto comedy, opposite Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, and John Del Carlo in the title role. Met Music Director James Levine conducts. When Otto Schenk's production premiered in 2006, the New York Times acclaimed it as "brilliant" and "wonderful."

Great Performances at the Met: Boris Godunov

S38 E06 • Sunday, Feb 13, 2011 • Feb 13

Adapted from a play by Alexander Pushkin about the extraordinary reign of the 16th-century tsar, Boris Godunov is regarded as one of the masterpieces of the Russian operatic repertoire. The Metropolitan Opera's new production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov starring Rene Pape as Boris and conducted by Valery Gergiev.

Hitman Returns: David Foster & Friends

S38 E07 • Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011 • Mar 2

Music “hitman” David Foster returns to Las Vegas with a showstopping show jam packed with special guests including Seal, Donna Summer, Earth, Wind & Fire and more.

Harry Connick in Concert on Broadway

S38 E08 • Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011 • Mar 2

Taped in July of 2010 at New York's Neil Simon Theater, Harry Connick, Jr. in Concert on Broadway features Connick's big band and a 12-piece string section, with the star on both a Steinway grand and upright honky-tonk piano.

Billy Joel: Live at Shea Stadium

S38 E09 • Monday, Mar 7, 2011 • Mar 7

Shortly before the demolition of New York City's Shea Stadium in July 2008, Billy Joel electrified audiences with two memorable concerts at the arena. Joel's special guests included Tony Bennett, Garth Brooks, and Sir Paul McCartney whose 1965 appearance there with the Beatles was so iconic. Hear those songs performed in full in Billy Joel: Live at Shea Stadium airing March on Great Performances.

Great Performances at the Met: Don Carlo

S38 E10 • Sunday, Apr 3, 2011 • Apr 3

The production is conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin, directed by Nicholas Hytner, and is starring Roberto Alagna, Marina Poplavskaya, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Simon Keenlyside, and Eric Halfvarson.

Great Performances at the Met: La Fanciulla Del West

S38 E11 • Sunday, Apr 24, 2011 • Apr 24

The Metropolitan Opera's production of La Fanciulla del West, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the opera's 1910 world premiere at the Met. Deborah Voigt sings the role of Minnie, with Marcello Giordani as Dick Johnson (the disguised bandit Ramerrez) and Lucio Gallo as the villainous sheriff Jack Rance.

Great Performances at the Met: Iphigenie En Tauride

S38 E12 • Sunday, May 29, 2011 • May 29

Gluck's rarely performed masterpiece, Iphigenie en Tauride, starring Susan Graham, Placido Domingo and Paul Groves. Patrick Summers conducts the revival of the Metropolitan Opera's much-lauded production by Stephen Wadsworth.

Carnegie Hall 120th Anniversary Concert

S38 E13 • Tuesday, May 31, 2011 • May 31

On May 5, 2011, Carnegie Hall commemorated its 120th anniversary with a gala concert featuring Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic and special guests Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, and Audra McDonald. Carnegie Hall 120th Anniversary Concert - featuring the works of Beethoven, Ellington, Dvorak, and Gershwin

Great Performances at the Met: Nixon in China

S38 E14 • Wednesday, Jun 1, 2011 • Jun 1

The Metropolitan Opera's premiere production of John Adams' Nixon in China, conducted by the composer and staged by internationally acclaimed director Peter Sellars.

Crossroads Guitar Festival 3

S38 E15 • Monday, Jun 6, 2011 • Jun 6

In June 2010, Eric Clapton gathered the world's most talented guitar players at the third Crossroads Guitar Festival. All profits benefited The Crossroads Centre in Antigua, a treatment and education facility Clapton founded to help people suffering from chemical dependency.

Jackie Evancho Dream With Me In Concert

S38 E16 • Monday, Jun 6, 2011 • Jun 6

Jackie is the youngest star in Great Performances' recent Hitman Returns: David Foster & Friends concert, performing virtuoso interpretations of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Pie Jesu" and Puccini's "O Mio Babbino Caro." David Foster will co-host the solo concert debut of the 10-year-old girl with the extraordinary soprano voice.

Great Performances at the Met: Lucia di Lammermoor

S38 E17 • Thursday, Jun 23, 2011 • Jun 23

Lucia di Lammermoor, with French soprano Natalie Dessay in one of her greatest roles as Donizetti's fragile heroine.

Rigoletto from Mantua

S38 E18 • Friday, Jul 15, 2011 • Jul 15

Directed by Marco Bellocchio, Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto from Mantua stars Placido Domingo as Rigoletto; Julia Novikova as his daughter Gilda; Vittorio Grigolo as the Duke; and Ruggero Raimondi as the assassin Sparafucile. Recorded in Mantua, Italy and broadcast live around the world on September 4 and 5, 2010.

Great Performances at the Met: Le Cornte Ory

S38 E19 • Sunday, Jul 24, 2011 • Jul 24

A trio of bel canto stars--Juan Diego Florez, Diana Damrau, and Joyce DiDonato--headline the Met's first-ever production of Le Comte Ory, Rossini's final comic masterpiece.

Great Performances at the Met: Capriccio

S38 E20 • Sunday, Aug 14, 2011 • Aug 14

Renee Fleming sings one of her signature roles, the elegant Countess in Richard Strauss's Capriccio. Andrew Davis, who led the Met premiere of the opera in 1998, returned to conduct its first revival.

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night 2011

S38 E21 • Friday, Aug 19, 2011 • Aug 19

Distinguished conductor Valery Gergiev leads the third annual Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night concert. This year's theme revolves around "Virtuoso Pictures," as exemplified by the works of Franz Liszt, Niccolo Paganini, Modest Mussorgsky, and Johann Strauss.

Placido Domingo: My Favorite Roles

S38 E22 • Friday, Sep 23, 2011 • Sep 23

The great Spanish tenor Placido Domingo looks back on his illustrious career - one which has been bountifully preserved on film and video. The celebrated tenor as he looks back and reflects with heartfelt candor on his choicest roles from opera houses around the world in this comprehensive performance documentary.

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Season 38

2010 • 22 Episodes

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