PlotNest
US

Episode guide

Great Performances: Season 42

23 episodes · first aired Sep 13, 2014

TMDB has no overview for this season.

Back to Great Performances: cast and where to watch

  1. 1 Star-Spangled Spectacular Sep 13, 2014 John Lithgow hosts a two-hour event with Grammy-, Emmy- and Tony-winning performers, along with co-host Jordin Sparks on September 13 at 8 pm, live from Baltimore's harbor. Performers…
  2. 2 Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE! Oct 24, 2014 Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE! – featuring an evening of classic jazz standards in both vocal duets and solo performances. Filmed at the Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln…
  3. 3 Cats: The Musical Nov 21, 2014 This special encore presentation of the original 1998 broadcast of "Cats" on Great Performances. Let the "Memory" live again, but this time see Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical in high…
  4. 4 From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2015 Jan 1, 2015 Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the sixth time to host the festive annual New Year’s celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of Zubin Mehta, from…
  5. 5 American Voices with Renée Fleming Jan 9, 2015 World-renowned American opera singer Renée Fleming convenes a festival of special guests to celebrate the diverse range of America’s vocal artistry. Young artists receive mentoring from…
  6. 6 GP at the Met: Le Nozze di Figaro Jan 16, 2015 The season nine premiere of Great Performances at the Met is Mozart’s elegant masterpiece of marital discord, Le Nozze di Figaro, conducted by Met Music Director James Levine and staged by…
  7. 7 Macbeth Feb 1, 2015 Director Rupert Goold's gripping stage production of Macbeth, set in a nameless 20th-century militaristic society and starring Sir Patrick Stewart in his Tony-nominated performance as the…
  8. 8 Great Performances at the Met: Carmen Feb 22, 2015 Acclaimed director Richard Eyre’s production of Carmen stars Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili in the title role of the seductive gypsy, a part she has sung to acclaim at many of…
  9. 9 La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema Feb 27, 2015 Conducted by Alan Gilbert, selections include music by Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Luis Bacalov, performed by the New York Philharmonic and featuring Joshua Bell, Renée Fleming and Josh…
  10. 10 Bryan Adams in Concert Mar 1, 2015 Canadian born singer-songwriter Bryan Adams has been one of the most successful international performers in contemporary rock music, selling over 65 million records in a career that has…
  11. 11 Great Performances at the Met: Il Barbiere di Siviglia Mar 22, 2015 Rossini’s classic comedy Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) features some of the most instantly recognizable melodies in all of opera. The dynamic young cast includes Lawrence…
  12. 12 Mark Morris Dance Group: L'Allegro Mar 27, 2015 Choreographer Mark Morris’s signature work comes to television for the first time, hosted by Mikhail Baryshnikov. Morris garnered international fame for this piece, set to George Frideric…
  13. 13 Annie Lennox: Nostalgia Live in Concert Apr 3, 2015 The concert of her Grammy-nominated album features Lennox’s takes on iconic American compositions by such artists as Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Billie Holiday and…
  14. 14 Great Performances at the Met: Meistersinger Apr 12, 2015 James Levine leads Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (“The Master-Singer of Nuremberg”) in its first Great Performances at the Met broadcast. Michael Volle is the cobbler-poet Hans…
  15. 15 Great Performances at the Met: Les Contes d'Hoffmann Apr 17, 2015 Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo stars as the tortured poet unlucky in love in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann on Great Performances at the Met. Offenbach based the opera on three stories…
  16. 16 Boston Symphony Orchestra: Andris Nelsons' Concert May 29, 2015 The start of BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons’ tenure with the orchestra features two of the conductor’s close colleagues: his wife, the acclaimed Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais, and…
  17. 17 Great Performances at the Met: The Merry Widow Jun 19, 2015 The lavish new staging of Lehár’s effervescent operetta The Merry Widow is the Met debut of Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman. Soprano Renée Fleming adds a new character to…
  18. 18 Great Performances at the Met: Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle Jul 12, 2015 Polish film director Mariusz Treliński makes his Met debut with the new production, inspired by noir films of the 1940s. Valery Gergiev conducts the two rarely performed one-acts…
  19. 19 Driving Miss Daisy Jul 17, 2015 Alfred Uhry’s classic play is a searing, funny, and hopeful meditation on race relations in America, told through the complex relationship between two of popular culture’s most enduring…
  20. 20 Dudamel Conducts a John Williams Celebration With the LA Phil Jul 24, 2015 Natalie Portman hosts Dudamel Conducts a John Williams Celebration with the LA Phil on Great Performances. Itzhak Perlman is the special guest in a gala opening night concert paying…
  21. 21 Great Performances at the Met: La Donna Del Lago Aug 2, 2015 Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez headline Rossini’s bel canto tour-de-force "La Donna del Lago" on Great Performances at the Met (check local listings). Based on the work by Sir Walter…
  22. 22 Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2015 Aug 28, 2015 Led by guest conductor Zubin Mehta, the world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic returns for its 12th open-air summer concert, this time with a distinctly Scandinavian flavor, in the magnificent…
  23. 23 Great Performances at the Met: Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci Sep 6, 2015 Sir David McVicar directs the first new Met production of the popular verismo double bill in 45 years: Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, both with Marcelo Álvarez as the male lead…