Soprano Karita Mattila caused a sensation when she sang Salome at the Met in 2004, stunning the opera world with her interpretation of Strauss’ biblical princess.
Episodes
Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in "La Damnation de Faust," Hector Berlioz’s classic take on dancing with the devil.
"Doctor Atomic" is John Adams’ powerful portrait of the physicist presiding over the creation of the atom bomb.
San Francisco Ballet makes the beloved Nutcracker its own, resetting it during the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exhibition.
Recorded live in performance at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Events Center, Hitman: David Foster & Friends features Foster himself presiding center stage at the keyboard.
The intoxicating strains of Franz Lehar and other masters of the operetta and zarzuela stage dominate an icon-studded concert gala from Vienna’s Schönbrunn Summer Palace.
Opera stars Dawn Upshaw and Thomas Hampson, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and Broadway’s Christine Ebersole join Michael Tilson Thomas and the SF Symphony in Carnegie Hall Opening Night 08.
GREAT PERFORMANCES marks the first anniversary of the passing of one of opera's most cherished voices with Pavarotti: A Life in Seven Arias.
Join GREAT PERFORMANCES at the Met for one of Donizetti’s most cherished -- and perhaps one of the most vocally challenging -- operas.


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