Great Performances
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RunningGreat Performances is a television series devoted to the performing arts, has been telecast on PBS since 1972. The show is produced by WNET in New York City. It is one of the longest running performing arts anthologies on television, second only to Hallmark Hall of Fame. Great Performances presents concerts, ballet, opera, an occasional documentary, and plays. The series has also won many television awards, including an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and an Image Award, with nods from the Directors Guild of America and the Cinema Audio Society.
Great Performances Season 52 at a glance
- Episodes announced
- 26 (25 aired)
- Premiere
- Fri, Oct 25, 2024
- Last announced episode
- Fri, Nov 20, 2026
- Release pattern
- Episodes release on varying dates
- Network
- PBS
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| Season 5226 | ||||
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| E1 | Émigré: A Musical Drama with the NY Philharmonic | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Land of Gold | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Patsy Cline: Walkin' After Midnight | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Henry Mancini 100 at the Hollywood Bowl | Aired | — | |
| E5 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2025 | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Movies for Grownups Awards with AARP the Magazine 2025 | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Andrea Bocelli 30th -- The Celebration | Aired | — | |
| E8 | The Magic of Nureyev | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Next to Normal | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Yellow Face | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Girl from the North Country | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Kiss Me, Kate | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2025 | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Magic of Grace Bumbry | Aired | — | |
| E15 | The Tiler Peck Story: Suspending Time | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Twelfth Night | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Nutcracker from English National Ballet | Aired | — | |
| E18 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2026 | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Samara Joy at Royal Albert Hall | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Suffs | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Irving Berlin's Top Hat | Aired | — | |
| E22 | An Evening with Nicole Scherzinger | Aired | — | |
| E23 | Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2026 | Aired | — | |
| E24 | Tammy Wynette: Forever Yours | Aired | — | |
| E25 | Dudamel Conducts New York Philharmonic | Next Episode | — | |
| E26 | Jimmy Webb: American Songwriter | Previous | — | |
| Season 5111 | ||||
| E1 | New York City Ballet in Madrid | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Message in a Bottle | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Making Shakespeare: The First Folio | Aired | — | |
| E4 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2024 | Aired | — | |
| E5 | The LA Phil Celebrates Frank Gehry | Aired | — | |
| E6 | George Jones: Still Playin' Possum | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Audra McDonald at the London Palladium | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Purlie Victorious | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Rodgers & Hammerstein's 80th Anniversary | Aired | — | |
| E10 | At the Met - Carmen | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2024 | Aired | — | |
| Season 5019 | ||||
| E1 | Black Lucy and The Bard | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Don Carlos | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2022 | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Turandot | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Black Lucy and the Bard | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Intimate Apparel | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Josh Groban's Great Big Radio City Show | Aired | — | |
| E8 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2023 | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Movies for Grownups with AARP the Magazine | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Magic of Spirituals | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Remember This | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Great Performances at the Met - The Hours | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Now Hear This: Piazzolla's History With Tango | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Now Hear This: Schumann: Genius and Madness | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Now Hear This: Andy Akiho Found (his) Sound | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Now Hear This : Albeniz: Portraits of Spain | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Richard III | Aired | — | |
| E19 | at the Met - Medea | Aired | — | |
| Season 4927 | ||||
| E1 | Yannick -- An Artist's Journey | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Verdi's Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11 | Aired | — | |
| E3 | The Red Shoes | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Now Hear This: Beethoven's Ghost | Aired | — | |
| E5 | John Williams at Tanglewood | Aired | — | |
| E6 | San Francisco Symphony Reopening Night | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Coppelia! | Aired | — | |
| E8 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2022 | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Reopening: The Broadway Revival | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Conductor | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Now Hear This: Amy Beach Rise to Prominence | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Bryn Terfel & Friends in Concert | Aired | — | |
| E14 | New Year's Eve Gala | Aired | — | |
| E15 | The New Year's Celebration 2022 | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Boris Godunov | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Eurydice | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Movies for Grownups® Awards 2022 with AARP The Magazine | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Fire Shut Up In My Bones | Aired | — | |
| E23 | Now Hear This "Florence Price and the American Migration" | Aired | — | |
| E24 | Now Hear This "Aaron Copland: Dean of American Music" | Aired | — | |
| E25 | Now Hear This "New American Voices" | Aired | — | |
| E26 | Cinderella | Aired | — | |
| E27 | Anything Goes | Aired | — | |
| E28 | Merry Wives | Aired | — | |
| E29 | Keeping Company with Sondheim | Aired | — | |
| E30 | Rigoletto | Aired | — | |
| E31 | Ariadne Auf Naxos | Aired | — | |
| Season 4813 | ||||
| E5 | Ann | Aired | — | |
| E6 | GRAMMY Salute to Music Legends® 2019 | Aired | — | |
| E10 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2021 | Aired | — | |
| E11 | The Magic of Callas | Aired | — | |
| E12 | The Magic of Horowitz | Aired | — | |
| E13 | National Theater: Romeo And Juliet | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Uncle Vanya | Aired | — | |
| E15 | The Arts Interrupted | Aired | — | |
| E16 | At The Met - Anna Netrebko In Concert | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2020 | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Gloria Estefan: Sangre Yoruba | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Roots of Latin Jazz | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2021 | Aired | — | |
| Season 4715 | ||||
| E7 | Tony Bennett & Diana Krall – Love Is Here to Stay | Aired | — | |
| E9 | k. d. lang – Landmarks Live in Concert | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Movies for Grownups Awards 2020 with AARP The Magazine | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Great Performances at the Met: Turandot | Aired | — | |
| E17 | La Phil 100 | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Leonard Bernstein Mass | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Ann | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Gloria: A Life | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Now Hear This "Haydn: King Of Strings" | Aired | — | |
| E22 | Now Hear This "The Schubert Generation" | Aired | — | |
| E23 | Now Hear This "Becoming Mozart" | Aired | — | |
| E24 | One Man, Two Guvnors | Aired | — | |
| E25 | Fiddler: A Miracle Of Miracles | Aired | — | |
| E26 | Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn | Aired | — | |
| E27 | Lea Salonga In Concert | Aired | — | |
| Season 468 | ||||
| E1 | 42nd Street | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Red | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Much Ado About Nothing | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Kinky Boots | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Jesus Christ Superstar - Live in Concert | Aired | — | |
| E7 | An Intimate Evening with David Foster | Aired | — | |
| E8 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2020 | Aired | — | |
| Season 4515 | ||||
| E1 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2019 | Aired | — | |
| E2 | The Cleveland Orchestra Centennial Celebration | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Orphée et Eurydice from Lyric Opera of Chicago | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Doubt from Minnesota Opera | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Marnie | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Bocelli @ 60 | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Birgit Nilsson: A League of Her Own | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Julius Caesar | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata | Aired | — | |
| E22 | Great Performances at the Met: Nabucco | Aired | — | |
| E23 | Great Performances at the Met: Rusalka | Aired | — | |
| E24 | Andrea Bocelli – Landmarks Live in Concert | Aired | — | |
| E25 | Great Performances at the Met: Eugene Onegin | Aired | — | |
| E26 | Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2017 | Aired | — | |
| Season 4433 | ||||
| E1 | Grammy Salute to Music Legends | Aired | — | |
| E2 | The Hollow Crown: Henry VI, Part I | Aired | — | |
| E3 | The Hollow Crown: Henry VI, Part II | Aired | — | |
| E4 | The Hollow Crown: Richard III | Aired | — | |
| E5 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2017 | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Bel Canto The Opera | Aired | — | |
| E7 | New York City Ballet in Paris | Aired | — | |
| E8 | New York City Ballet Symphony in C | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Dudamel Conducts Tangos Under the Stars with the LA Phil | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Young Men | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Alicia Keys - Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special | Aired | — | |
| E12 | La Traviata | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Fifty Years - Ninety Miles: Havana Time Machine | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Grammy Salute to Music Legends 2 | Aired | — | |
| E15 | She Loves Me | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Noel Coward's Present Laughter | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed Live | Aired | — | |
| E20 | In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Foo Fighters - Landmarks Live in Concert | Aired | — | |
| E22 | Indecent | Aired | — | |
| E23 | Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn - The Broadway Musical | Aired | — | |
| E24 | At the Met - Norma | Aired | — | |
| E25 | Nas Live from The Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop | Aired | — | |
| E26 | Movies for Grownups Awards with Aarp The Magazine | Aired | — | |
| E27 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2018 | Aired | — | |
| E28 | The Opera House | Aired | — | |
| E29 | Ellis Island: The Dream of America with Pacific Symphony | Aired | — | |
| E30 | Chicago Voices | Aired | — | |
| E31 | Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2018 | Aired | — | |
| E32 | The Chris Botti Band in Concert | Aired | — | |
| E33 | Grammy Salute to Music Legends 2018 | Aired | — | |
| E34 | The Sound of Music | Aired | — | |
| E39 | Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood | Aired | — | |
| Season 4327 | ||||
| E1 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2015 | Aired | — | |
| E2 | American Voices with Renée Fleming | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Great Performances at the Met: Le Nozze di Figaro | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Great Performances at the Met: Macbeth | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Great Performances at the Met: Carmen | Aired | — | |
| E6 | La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Mark Morris Dance Group: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Bryan Adams in Concert | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Annie Lennox: Nostalgia Live in Concert | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Great Performances at the Met: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Great Performances at the Met: Les Contes d'Hoffmann | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Boston Symphony Orchestra: Andris Nelsons' Inaugural Concert | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Great Performances at the Met: The Merry Widow | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Great Performances at the Met: Iolanta; Bluebeard's Castle | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Driving Miss Daisy | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Dudamel Conducts a John Williams Celebration with the LA Phil | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Great Performances at the Met: La Donna del Lago | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2015 | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Great Performances at the Met: Cavalleria Rusticana; Pagliacci | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Billy Elliot the Musical Live | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Chita Rivera: A Lot of Livin' to Do | Aired | — | |
| E22 | Andrea Bocelli: Cinema | Aired | — | |
| E23 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2016 | Aired | — | |
| E24 | Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration | Aired | — | |
| E25 | Star-Spangled Spectacular: Bicentennial of Our National Anthem | Aired | — | |
| E26 | Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE! | Aired | — | |
| E27 | Encores! Great Performances at the Met | Aired | — | |
| Season 4220 | ||||
| E1 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2014 | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Great Performances at the Met: Eugene Onegin | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Barrymore | Aired | — | |
| E4 | National Theatre 50 Years on Stage | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Sting: The Last Ship | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Great Performances at the Met: The Nose | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs: The Dukes of September | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Great Performances at the Met: Tosca | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Great Performances at the Met: Falstaff | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Great Performances at the Met: Rusalka | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Dave Clark Five and Beyond: Glad All Over | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Great Performances at the Met: Prince Igor | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Great Performances at the Met: La Boheme | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Great Performances at the Met: Werther | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Dudamel Conducts the Verdi Requiem at the Hollywood Bowl | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night 2014 | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Rejoice with Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Great Performances at the Met: Cosi Fan Tutte | Aired | — | |
| Season 4138 | ||||
| E1 | Paul McCartney's Live Kisses | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Great Performances at the Met: Wagner's Dream | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Great Performances at the Met: Das Rheingold | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Great Performances at the Met: Die Walkure | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Great Performances at the Met: Siegfried | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Great Performances at the Met: Gotterdammerung | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Rod Stewart: Merry Christmas, Baby | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Magical Mystery Tour Revisited | Aired | — | |
| E9 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2013 | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Paul Simon's Graceland Journey | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Great Performances at the Met: L'Elisir d'Amore | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Andrea Bocelli: Love in Portofino | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Great Performances at the Met: Otello | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Great Performances at the Met: The Tempest | Aired | — | |
| E16 | The Paul Taylor Dance Company in Paris | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Great Performances at the Met: La Clemenza di Tito | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Great Performances at the Met: Un Ballo in Maschera | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Great Performances at the Met: Rigoletto | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Great Performances at the Met: Aida | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Great Performances at the Met: Les Troyens | Aired | — | |
| E22 | Great Performances at the Met: Maria Stuarda | Aired | — | |
| E23 | Dancing at Jacob's Pillow: Never Stand Still | Aired | — | |
| E24 | Great Performances at the Met: Parsifal | Aired | — | |
| E25 | Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night 2013 | Aired | — | |
| E26 | Great Performances at the Met: Francesca da Rimini | Aired | — | |
| E27 | Great Performances at the Met: Giulio Cesare | Aired | — | |
| E28 | The Hollow Crown: Richard II | Aired | — | |
| E29 | The Hollow Crown: Henry IV - Part 1 | Aired | — | |
| E30 | The Hollow Crown: Henry IV - Part 2 | Aired | — | |
| E31 | The Hollow Crown: Henry V | Aired | — | |
| E32 | Great Performances' 40th Anniversary Celebration | Aired | — | |
| E33 | Moby Dick from San Francisco Opera | Aired | — | |
| E34 | Stephen Sondheim's 'Company' with the New York Philharmonic | Aired | — | |
| E35 | Rodgers & Hammerstein's 'Oklahoma' | Aired | — | |
| E36 | Barbra Streisand: Back to Brooklyn | Aired | — | |
| E37 | Pavarotti: A Voice for the Ages | Aired | — | |
| E38 | Great Performances at the Met: La Cenerentola | Aired | — | |
| Season 4032 | ||||
| E1 | Rigoletto from Mantua | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Great Performances at the Met: Le Comte Ory | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2011 | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Great Performances at the Met: Capriccio | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Great Performances at the Met: Il Trovatore | Aired | — | |
| E6 | A Concert for New York | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Plácido Domingo: My Favorite Roles | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk - A Celebration of New Orleans Blues | Aired | — | |
| E9 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2012 | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Herbie Hancock, Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil Celebrate Gershwin | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Let Me Down Easy | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Great Performances at the Met: Anna Bolena | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Tony Bennett: Duets II | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Memphis | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Great Performances at the Met: Satyagraha | Aired | — | |
| E17 | The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater | Aired | — | |
| E18 | San Francisco Symphony at 100 | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Great Performances at the Met: Rodelinda | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Great Performances at the Met: Faust | Aired | — | |
| E22 | Great Performances at the Met: The Enchanted Island | Aired | — | |
| E23 | Great Performances at the Met: Ernani | Aired | — | |
| E24 | Twilight: Los Angeles | Aired | — | |
| E25 | Jackie Evancho: Music of the Movies | Aired | — | |
| E26 | Great Performances at the Met: Manon | Aired | — | |
| E27 | Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration | Aired | — | |
| E28 | Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata | Aired | — | |
| E29 | Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2012 | Aired | — | |
| E30 | Andrea Bocelli Live in Central Park | Aired | — | |
| E31 | The Little Mermaid from San Francisco Ballet | Aired | — | |
| E32 | Miami City Ballet Dances Balanchine and Tharp | Aired | — | |
| Season 3920 | ||||
| E1 | Vienna Philharmonic's Summer Night Concert 2010 | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Renée Fleming & Dmitri Hvorostovsky: A Musical Odyssey in St. Petersburg | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Macbeth | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Pierre Boulez Conducts Mahler's 7th | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Sondheim! The Birthday Concert | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Celebración! Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil with Juan Diego Flórez | Aired | — | |
| E7 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2011 | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Great Performances at the Met: Don Pasquale | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Great Performances at the Met: Boris Godunov | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Harry Connick Jr. in Concert on Broadway | Aired | — | |
| E11 | The Hitman Returns: David Foster & Friends | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Billy Joel Live at Shea Stadium | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Great Performances at the Met: Don Carlo | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Great Performances at the Met: La Fanciulla del West | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Great Performances at the Met: Iphigénie en Tauride | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Carnegie Hall 120th Anniversary Concert | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Great Performances at the Met: Nixon in China | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Eric Clapton: Crossroads Guitar Festival 3 at Chicago's Toyota Park | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Jackie Evancho: Dream with Me in Concert | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Great Performances at the Met: Lucia di Lammermoor | Aired | — | |
| Season 3820 | ||||
| E1 | Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic: The Inaugural Concert | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Andrea Bocelli and David Foster: My Christmas | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Sting: A Winter's Night | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Great Performances at the Met: Tosca | Aired | — | |
| E5 | La Bohème - The Movie | Aired | — | |
| E6 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2010 | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Passing Strange | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Great Performances at the Met: The Audition | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Great Performances at the Met: Aida | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Great Performances at the Met: Turandot | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Dance In America: NY Export: Opus Jazz | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Great Performances at the Met: Les Contes d'Hoffmann | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Great Performances at the Met: Der Rosenkavalier | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Hamlet | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Great Performances at the Met: Carmen | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Great Performances at the Met: Simon Boccanegra | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Great Performances at the Met: Hamlet | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Great Performances at the Met: Armida | Aired | — | |
| E42 | Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk | Aired | — | |
| Season 3728 | ||||
| E1 | Pavarotti: A Life in Seven Arias | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2008: A Celebration of Leonard Bernstein | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Hit Man: David Foster and Friends | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Domingo, Netrebko & Villazón: Three Stars in Vienna | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Dance in America: San Francisco Ballet's Nutcracker | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Great Performances at the Met: Doctor Atomic | Aired | — | |
| E7 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2009 | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Great Performances at the Met: Salome | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Great Performances at the Met: La Damnation de Faust | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Great Performances at the Met: Opening Night Gala Starring Renée Fleming | Aired | — | |
| E12 | King Lear | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Great Performances at the Met: Thaïs | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Great Performances at the Met: Lucia di Lammermoor | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Great Performances at the Met: La Rondine | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Great Performances at the Met: Orfeo ed Euridice | Aired | — | |
| E17 | In the Heights - Chasing Broadway Dreams | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood: Live from Madison Square Garden | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Stevie Wonder: Live at Last | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Chess in Concert | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Great Performances at the Met: La Sonnambula | Aired | — | |
| E22 | Great Performances at the Met: Madama Butterfly | Aired | — | |
| E23 | Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebration from Madison Square Garden | Aired | — | |
| E24 | Great Performances at the Met: La Cenerentola | Aired | — | |
| E25 | Harlem in Montmartre | Aired | — | |
| E26 | Karajan, or Beauty as I See It | Aired | — | |
| E27 | The Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2009 | Aired | — | |
| E28 | The Police Certifiable | Aired | — | |
| Season 3619 | ||||
| E1 | The Israel Philharmonic 70th Anniversary Gala Concert | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival Chicago | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Vivere: Andrea Bocelli Live in Tuscany | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Great Performances at the Met: Viewer's Choice | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny | Aired | — | |
| E6 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2008 | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Company | Aired | — | |
| E9 | The New York Philharmonic: Live from North Korea | Aired | — | |
| E10 | James Taylor: One Man Band | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Martina McBride Live in Concert | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Peter and the Wolf | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Great Performances at the Met: Hansel and Gretel | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Great Performances at the Met: Roméo et Juliette | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Great Performances at the Met: Macbeth | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Dance in America: Wolf Trap's Face of America | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Primo | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Great Performances at the Met: Manon Lescaut | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Great Performances at the Met: Peter Grimes | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Maestro: Portrait of Valery Gergiev | Aired | — | |
| Season 3523 | ||||
| E1 | Dance in America: 'Jewels' from the Paris Opera Ballet | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Vienna State Opera 50th Anniversary Reopening Gala | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Mozart at 250: The Salzburg Festival Celebration | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2006 | Aired | — | |
| E5 | A Tribute to James Taylor | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Beverly Sills: Made in America | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Garrison Keillor's New Year's Eve Special | Aired | — | |
| E12 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2007 | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Great Performances at the Met: The Magic Flute | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Great Performances at the Met: I Puritani | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Sting: Songs from the Labyrinth | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Loreena McKennitt: Nights from the Alhambra | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Jerry Lee Lewis: Last Man Standing, Live | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Barenboim on Beethoven | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Great Performances at the Met: The First Emperor | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Great Performances at the Met: Eugene Onegin | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Great Performances at the Met: The Barber of Seville | Aired | — | |
| E22 | We Love Ella: A Tribute to the First Lady of Song | Aired | — | |
| E23 | Great Performances at the Met: Il Trittico | Aired | — | |
| E24 | Dance in America: Dancing in the Light | Aired | — | |
| E25 | Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story | Aired | — | |
| E26 | Lionel Richie: Live in Paris | Aired | — | |
| E27 | Nureyev: The Russian Years | Aired | — | |
| Season 3413 | ||||
| E1 | From Shtetl to Swing | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Cream Reunion Concert | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Renée Fleming: Sacred Songs and Carols | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Michael Buble: Caught in the Act | Aired | — | |
| E5 | My Name is Barbra | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Nightingale (Le Rossignol) | Aired | — | |
| E7 | From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2006 | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Paul McCartney: Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Color Me Barbra | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Andrea Bocelli: Amore Under the Desert Sky | Aired | — | |
| E11 | 'South Pacific' in Concert from Carnegie Hall | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Dance in America: Beyond the Steps-Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Garrison Keillor's Independence Day Special: A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood | Aired | — | |
| Season 333 | ||||
| E10 | Leonard Bernstein's 'Candide' | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Little Prince | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of the Tony Awards | Aired | — | |
| Season 321 | ||||
| E19 | Broadway's Lost Treasures II | Aired | — | |
| Season 314 | ||||
| E4 | Josh Groban in Concert | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Kiss Me Kate | Aired | — | |
| E11 | The Great American Songbook | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Broadway's Lost Treasures | Aired | — | |
| Season 302 | ||||
| E5 | The Art of Violin | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Kurosawa | Aired | — | |
| Season 294 | ||||
| E2 | Chuck Jones - Extremes and In-Betweens, a Life in Animation | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Dance in America: From Broadway: Fosse | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Jesus Christ Superstar | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Little Women | Aired | — | |
| Season 286 | ||||
| E2 | Crazy for You | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Burn the Floor | Aired | — | |
| E4 | My Favourite Broadway: The Leading Ladies | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Andrea Bocelli: Sacred Arias | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Central Park | Aired | — | |
| E10 | My Favourite Broadway: The Love Songs | Aired | — | |
| Season 274 | ||||
| E1 | Carnegie Hall Opening Night 1998 | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Zizi: Je T'Aime | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Cats | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Andrew Lloyd Webber: The 50th Birthday Celebration | Aired | — | |
| Season 263 | ||||
| E3 | The Music of Kander and Ebb: Razzle Dazzle | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Sam Shepard: Stalking Himself | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Swan Lake | Aired | — | |
| Season 251 | ||||
| E13 | Robert Altman's Jazz '34 | Aired | — | |
| Season 242 | ||||
| E2 | Julie Andrews: Back on Broadway | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Les Misérables in Concert | Aired | — | |
| Season 232 | ||||
| E4 | The World of Jim Henson | Aired | — | |
| E7 | The Music of Kurt Weill: September Songs | Aired | — | |
| Season 223 | ||||
| E4 | The Sorceress | Aired | — | |
| E7 | On the Town in Concert | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters: Verve Records at 50 | Aired | — | |
| Season 215 | ||||
| E3 | A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Guys and Dolls: Off the Record | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Suddenly, Last Summer | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Oedipus Rex | Aired | — | |
| Season 192 | ||||
| E2 | The Colored Museum | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Hamlet | Aired | — | |
| Season 182 | ||||
| E3 | Spike & Co.: Do It Acapella | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Tailor of Gloucester | Aired | — | |
| Season 171 | ||||
| E1 | Dance in America: The Search for Nijinsky's Rite of Spring | Aired | — | |
| Season 162 | ||||
| E1 | Richard Burton: In from the Cold | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Nixon in China | Aired | — | |
| Season 153 | ||||
| E1 | James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Bacall on Bogart | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Monsignor Quixote | Aired | — | |
| Season 143 | ||||
| E2 | The Gospel at Colonus | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Follies in Concert | Aired | — | |
| E24 | Grown-Ups | Aired | — | |
| Season 133 | ||||
| E6 | You Can't Take It with You | Aired | — | |
| E25 | Bernstein Conducts 'West Side Story' | Aired | — | |
| E28 | Judy Garland: The Concert Years | Aired | — | |
| Season 121 | ||||
| E2 | Alice in Wonderland | Aired | — | |
| Season 112 | ||||
| E1 | She Loves Me | Aired | — | |
| E2 | When Hell Freezes Over, I'll Skate | Aired | — | |
| Season 98 | ||||
| E2 | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Part 1 | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Part 2 | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Part 3 | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Part 4 | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Part 5 | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Part 6 | Aired | — | |
| E9 | The Collection | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Life On The Mississippi | Aired | — | |
| Season 51 | ||||
| E1 | Ah, Wilderness! | Aired | — | |
| Season 47 | ||||
| E1 | Jennie - Lady Randolph Churchill: (1) Jennie Jerome | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Jennie - Lady Randolph Churchill: (2) Lady Randolph | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Jennie - Lady Randolph Churchill: (3) Recovery | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Jennie - Lady Randolph Churchill: (4) Triumph and Tragedy | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Jennie - Lady Randolph Churchill: (5) A Perfect Darling | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Jennie - Lady Randolph Churchill: (6) His Borrowed Plumes | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Jennie - Lady Randolph Churchill: (7) A Past and a Future | Aired | — | |
| Season 310 | ||||
| E1 | Concertgebouw Orchestra: Rubinstein | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Berlin Philharmonic: Herbert von Karajan | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Bernstein at Tanglewood | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Zalmen, or The Madness of God | Aired | — | |
| E5 | The Seagull | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Brother To Dragons | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Forget-Me-Not Lane | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Pagliacci | Aired | — | |
| E9 | The School For Scandal | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Rules of the Game | Aired | — | |
| Season 216 | ||||
| E1 | Enemies | Aired | — | |
| E2 | June Moon | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Antigone | Aired | — | |
| E5 | King Lear | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Bernstein's Mass | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Paradise Lost | Aired | — | |
| E8 | In Fashion | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Feasting with Panthers | Aired | — | |
| E10 | A Memory of Two Mondays | Aired | — | |
| E11 | The Contractor | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Bach's Mass in B Minor | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Ceremony of Innocence | Aired | — | |
| E14 | A Touch of the Poet | Aired | — | |
| E15 | The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Monkey, Monkey, Bottle of Beer, How Many Monkeys Have We Here? | Aired | — | |
| Season 13 | ||||
| E1 | The Rimers of Eldritch | Aired | — | |
| E2 | To Be Young, Gifted, and Black | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Hogan's Goat | Aired | — | |
About Great Performances
Great Performances is a television series devoted to the performing arts, has been telecast on PBS since 1972. The show is produced by WNET in New York City. It is one of the longest running performing arts anthologies on television, second only to Hallmark Hall of Fame. Great Performances presents concerts, ballet, opera, an occasional documentary, and plays. The series has also won many television awards, including an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and an Image Award, with nods from the Directors Guild of America and the Cinema Audio Society.
Great Performances FAQ
When is the next episode of Great Performances?
S52E25 "Dudamel Conducts New York Philharmonic" airs Fri, Nov 20, 2026 on PBS.
How many episodes are in Great Performances Season 52?
26 episodes of Season 52 have been announced so far, 25 of which have aired. Episodes release on varying dates.
When does Great Performances Season 52 end?
The last announced episode of Season 52 (S52E25) airs Fri, Nov 20, 2026. More episodes may still be added.
How do I add Great Performances to my calendar?
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