Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration, featuring many of the iconic artists identified with the fete, will air on THIRTEEN’S Great Performances Friday, August 10 at 9 p.m. ET as part of the PBS Arts Summer Festival (check local listings).

GREAT PERFORMANCES is proud to announce that we received five Primetime Emmy nominations.

GREAT PEROFRMANCES mourns the passing of Celeste Holm who died last Sunday at the age of 95.

THIRTEEN’s Great Performances will present 12-year-old classical crossover prodigy Jackie Evancho’s second television special Jackie Evancho: Music of the Movies, in August on PBS (check local listings).

Natalie Dessay and Matthew Polenzani perform "Sempre Libera" from La Traviata.

Natalie Dessay and Matthew Polenzani perform "Libiamo" from La Traviata.

Acclaimed French soprano Natalie Dessay makes her Met role debut as Violetta, the fallen woman who sacrifices her last chance for love, in Verdi’s La Traviata airing on THIRTEEN’s Great Performances at the Met Sunday, August 26 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

The Gavotte from Massenet's Manon with Anna Netrebko as the title character.

Anna Netrebko as the title character, Piotr Beczala as des Grieux, and Paulo Szot as Lescaut in a scene from Massenet's Manon.

Star soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met performances of the title role in Manon, Massenet’s opera about a country girl with conflicting desires for love and luxury who is drawn into a life of glamorous -- but hollow -- Parisian sophistication. Manon airs on THIRTEEN’s Great Performances at the Met Sunday, August 5 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).