Watch a half hour of the program for 2011, including Les Preludes by Franz Liszt and Fritz Kreisler's Concerto in One Movement after Paganini's Violin Concerto op. 6.

The works of Liszt, Paganini, Mussorgsky, and Strauss are featured on the traditional concert from Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace Gardens.

Pape takes on one of opera’s most demanding bass roles for the first time in America, with Valery Gergiev conducting.

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.

View the production credits for "Maestro: Portrait of Valery Gergiev."

Russian dynamo Valery Gergiev -- world-famous conductor and tireless promoter of his nation's rich musical heritage -- sits for his GREAT PERFORMANCES portrait.

View the production credits for "GP at The Met: Eugene Onegin."

Celebrated Siberian-born baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky talked about one of his signature roles -- the title character in Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin."

Robert Carsen and Valery Gergiev bring Tchaikovsky's opera based on Alexander Pushkin's poem to the stage.