The San Francisco Ballet is a cultural institution today, but the city has an illustrious artistic heritage. Among San Francisco's great achievements is the 1915 World's Fair, which brought 18 million visitors to the city by the bay. Watch a short documentary about the momentous ...
Featuring music selections ranging from the 1944 ballet Fancy Free through West Side Story (1957) to the composer's final opera A Quiet Place (1983), this excerpt of the concert offers a virtual sound portrait of Leonard Bernstein's life. This Great Performances episode featuring the San ...
For a man conducting a performance nearly every day of the year, Valery Gergiev remains the calm center of the frenzied world of musicians, singers, administrators, politicians, and managers swirling around him. Learn more about the Maestro in this scene from the program.
Wolf Trap takes you on a journey through some of America's most breathtaking national parks, including Yosemite, Coral Reef National Monument, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, and the Mammoth Caves.
Peter and the duck enjoy a frozen pond while the hapless cat stalks the raven in this scene from the film.
His nose knows, and so do New York’s toughest critics. Assessing Kevin Kline’s latest foray into the treacherous waters of Broadway, this time as Edmond Rostand’s proboscisly challenged, 17th-century warrior-poet Cyrano de Bergerac, The New Yorker cheered “Kevin Kline is sensational.” A “deeply satisfying pleasure” ...
Stage, screen and recording legend Julie Andrews rings in the new year as she hosts From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2009, Thursday, January 1 at 2:30 and 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Joining her for the annual Vienna Philharmonic holiday extravaganza ...
Finnish soprano Karita Mattila caused a sensation when she sang Salome at the Met for the first time in 2004, stunning the opera world with her interpretation of Richard Strauss’ fabled biblical princess. Wonderful news for fans – musical and TV – is her return ...
Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in La Damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz’s classic take on dancing with the devil, Saturday, February 28 at noon (ET) on Great Performances at the Met (check local listings). Presented by THIRTEEN ...
John Adams’s opera stars Gerald Finley as "Father of the A-Bomb." GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET launches its third season on PBS with the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Doctor Atomic, John Adams’ powerful portrait of the physicist presiding over the creation of the atom bomb, ...
