GP at the Met: Don Giovanni - About the Opera
Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads his first Met performances of Mozart’s Don Giovanni in a new production directed by Tony Award winner Michael Grandage in his Met debut.

Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads his first Met performances of Mozart’s Don Giovanni in a new production directed by Tony Award winner Michael Grandage in his Met debut.
Captured live-in-performance at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre, Tony® nominees Chad Kimball and Montego Glover lead the original cast in a story of forbidden love and the early days of rock and roll.
Best-selling author Amy Tan hosts the commemorative concert and narrates the historical mini-documentaries woven throughout the special.
Celebrate Yiddish theater pioneers Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky in this new work by their grandson, Michael Tilson Thomas, Artistic Director of the New World Symphony.
Marco Armiliato conducts the acclaimed new production by David McVicar.
Conceived, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith in her signature one person performance style, the play examines the miracle of human resilience through the lens of our current national debate on health care.
Lady Gaga, John Mayer, Michael Bublé, k.d. lang, Aretha Franklin, Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson, Queen Latifah, Norah Jones, Josh Groban, Natalie Cole, Andrea Bocelli, Faith Hill, Alejandro Sanz, Carrie Underwood and Amy Winehouse join Bennett in the studio.
“An American in Paris,” “Rhapsody in Blue,” and Hancock’s improvisation on a Gershwin standard fill the bill.
Julie Andrews returns as host of From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2012, this year conducted by Mariss Jansons.
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