Episodes
Episode: 44x01 | Airdate: Oct 14, 2016 (150 min)
A concert pays tribute to the 2016 Grammy special merit award recipients Ruth Brown, Celia Cruz, Earth, Wind & Fire, Jefferson Airplane, Herbie Hancock, Linda Ronstadt and Run-DMC.
Episode: 44x02 | Airdate: Dec 11, 2016 (120 min)
War rages and divisions within the English court threaten the crown; the scene is set for civil war.
Episode: 44x03 | Airdate: Dec 18, 2016 (150 min)
Queen Margaret overshadows King Henry; Edward IV takes the throne, but Richard eyes the crown.
Episode: 44x04 | Airdate: Dec 25, 2016 (150 min)
Edward IV takes the throne, but youngest brother Richard has his eyes on the crown.
Episode: 44x05 | Airdate: Jan 1, 2017
The Vienna Philharmonic celebrates the New Year with Strauss Family waltzes, accompanied by the Vienna City Ballet; host Julie Andrews.
Episode: 44x06 | Airdate: Jan 13, 2017 (180 min)
Experience composer Jimmy Lopez and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz' operatic adaptation of Ann Patchett's best-selling novel inspired by a true-life hostage crisis in the 1990s in Lima, Peru, with soprano Danielle de Niese.
Episode: 44x07 | Airdate: Feb 17, 2017 (60 min)
The New York City Ballet performs an all-Balanchine program that includes the Walpurgisnacht Ballet and La valse, set to music by Charles Gounod and Maurice Ravel.
Episode: 44x08 | Airdate: Feb 24, 2017
Enjoy two Balanchine gems: Bizet's Symphony in C, and Sonatine to Ravel music, recorded in Paris.
Episode: 44x09 | Airdate: Mar 31, 2017
Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a program featuring Latin tangos.
Episode: 44x10 | Airdate: Apr 7, 2017
A film about the World War I experience features dancers from the BalletBoyz company.
Episode: 44x11 | Airdate: Jun 23, 2017 (60 min)
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Alicia Keys performs in various locations around New York, including the Circle Line harbor tour, the Unisphere in Queens and Harlem's Apollo Theater.
Episode: 44x12 | Airdate: Aug 25, 2017
Episode: 44x13 | Airdate: Oct 6, 2017
Take a musical journey to Cuba with evocative performances hosted by Raul Malo of the Mavericks.
Episode: 44x14 | Airdate: Oct 13, 2017
Salute Shirley Caesar, Charley Pride, Jimmie Rodgers, Nina Simone, the Velvet Underground and more.
Episode: 44x15 | Airdate: Oct 20, 2017
Enjoy the musical about feuding clerks who are romantic pen pals; with Laura Benanti & Zachary Levi.
Episode: 44x16 | Airdate: Nov 3, 2017
Episode: 44x19 | Airdate: Dec 2, 2017
Experience the 50th anniversary live performance of the band's seminal album, with full orchestra.
Episode: 44x20 | Airdate: Nov 10, 2017
Episode: 44x21 | Airdate: Nov 10, 2017
Episode: 44x22 | Airdate: Nov 17, 2017
See Paula Vogel's Tony Award winner that looks at an explosive moment in theatrical history.
Episode: 44x23 | Airdate: Nov 24, 2017
Episode: 44x24 | Airdate: Jan 26, 2018
Hear Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato and Joseph Calleja in Bellini's masterpiece.
Episode: 44x25 | Airdate: Feb 2, 2018
Witness a symphonic rendition of Nas' debut album Illmatic with the National Symphony Orchestra.
Episode: 44x26 | Airdate: Feb 23, 2018
Episode: 44x27 | Airdate: Jan 1, 2018
GREAT PERFORMANCES continues the cherished tradition of ringing in the new year with the Vienna Philharmonic at the opulent Musikverein, under the baton of Italian conductor and Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti, featuring favorite Strauss Family waltzes accompanied by the dancing of the Vienna State Ballet. This year's program welcomes new host Hugh Bonneville, best known as the Earl of Grantham, Robert Crawley in Masterpiece's global phenomenon, Downton Abbey, for which he received a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy nominations.
Episode: 44x28 | Airdate: May 25, 2018
Explore the history of the Met Opera's Lincoln Center home and life in 1950s-60s New York City.
Episode: 44x29 | Airdate: Jun 29, 2018
THIRTEEN's Great Performances and Pacific Symphony, led by music director Carl St.Clair, pay tribute to America's history with a performance of composer Peter Boyer's "Ellis Island: The Dream of America," a Grammy-nominated contemporary classical work celebrating the historic American immigrant experience.
Episode: 44x30 | Airdate: Aug 10, 2018
Celebrate the city's vibrant music with Renee Fleming, Jessie Mueller, Michelle Williams and more.
Episode: 44x31 | Airdate: Aug 17, 2018
Enjoy the Vienna Philharmonic's open-air concert led by Valery Gergiev with soprano Anna Netrebko.
Episode: 44x32 | Airdate: Aug 20, 2018
See Grammy Award-winning trumpeter with vocalist Sy Smith, violinist Caroline Campbell and more.
Episode: 44x33 | Airdate: Oct 5, 2018
Enjoy an all-star concert honoring Neil Diamond, Tina Turner, Queen, John Williams and more.
Episode: 44x34 | Airdate: Nov 9, 2018 (120 min)
A U.K. production of "The Sound of Music," the long-running musical about the von Trapp Family Singers and their escape from Austria at the height of Nazism.
Episode: 44x39 | Airdate: Dec 28, 2018
Specials
Episode: S44 Special | Airdate: Jun 30, 2017 (60 min)
Andrea Bocelli performs at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy; host Chad Smith.
Episode: S44 Special | Airdate: Jan 27, 2017 (60 min)
Country music superstar Brad Paisley returns to his roots in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains for a special outdoor concert at West Virginia University. Hosted by Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Episode: S44 Special | Airdate: Jan 20, 2017 (60 min)
Enjoy the debut of a pop music series. Grammy-winner Alicia Keys performs in notable locations all around New York, including the world-famous Circle Line, the Unisphere and Harlem's Apollo. Hosted by Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.