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).

With the recent passing of Rodney King and in the 20th anniversary year of the Los Angeles riots, Great Performances presents an encore presentation of Anna Deveare Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles Friday, June 29 at 10 p.m. ET (check local listings).

Twelve-year-old classical crossover prodigy Jackie Evancho will record a new Great Performances special in Los Angeles at the Orpheum Theater on June 13.

Robert Lepage’s acclaimed new production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, will air on Great Performances at the Met, September 11-14 in primetime each night on PBS stations (check local listings), as a major television event.

We mourn the passing of the great German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau who passed away Friday, May 18th at the age of 86.

The Tanglewood 75th anniversary gala concert, featuring many of the iconic artists identified with the fete, has been added to the PBS Arts Summer Festival line-up and will air Friday, August 10 at 9 p.m. ET(check local listings).

Angela Meade sings "Ernani, Ernani involami," Elvira's aria from Act I of Verdi's "Ernani".

Angela Meade, Marcello Giodani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Ferruccio Furlanetto star in Verdi’s Ernani airing on THIRTEEN’s Great Performances at the Met Sunday, June 17 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).