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A year after his death, Great Performances celebrates the life of Luciano Pavarotti. Rarely seen footage, archival performances, and interviews with friends... read more

The 90th anniversary of the birth of composer Leonard Bernstein is celebrated. Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony.

Prolific composer and record producer David Foster brings together performers that he has worked with in his long career and a few new faces to celebrate an ... read more

Three opera icons--tenors Plácido Domingo and Rolando Villazón, and soprano Anna Netrebko--perform selections from such favorite works as The Merry Widow, L... read more

San Francisco Ballet makes the beloved Nutcracker its own, resetting it during the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exhibition and introducing Dance in Amer... read more

John Adams' 1991 opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the inventor of the atomic bomb.

Julie Andrews hosts as the Vienna Philharmonic performs Strauss favorites and a tribute to Franz Joseph Haydn, as 2009 is the 200th anniversary of his death... read more

Actor Kevin Kline brings Cyrano de Bergerac to life in this Broadway production recorded on stage in performance at the Richard Rodgers Theater, January 3 a... read more

This 1905 opera by German composer, Richard Straus, is based on Oscar Wilde's play telling of the Biblical Salome, who danced for Herod in exchange for the ... read more

Hector Berlioz's opera about making a deal with the Devil gets an updated look thanks to technology in media. Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and Italian tenor M... read more

The opening gala of the Metropolitan Opera's 2008-2009 season features soprano Renee Fleming in three of her favorite roles. Taped in September, 2008, at th... read more

An aging King Lear decides to abdicate and divide his kingdom among his three daughters. He seeks a kind of oath of love before doing so, with which Goneril... read more

Jacques Offenbach's French opera, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffman) is performed by the New York Metropolitan Opera. The production is sung in Fre... read more

Gaetano Donizetti's opera about love and politics, and a woman who is driven to madness. This production is set in the Victorian era. Sung in Italian with E... read more

Giacomo Puccini's opera is performed by real-life couple, Angela Gheorghiu and husband Roberto Alagna. Gheorghiu plays an unhappy kept woman who has a fling... read more

Orfeo ed Euridice (English translation: Orpheus and Eurydice) is the most famous opera by comoser Christoph Willibald von Gluck. It is the mythical tale of ... read more

A behind the scenes look at the Broadway musical In the Heights, a "modern-day West Side Story" set in a latin neighborhood. Cameras follow the relatively u... read more

Long-time friends Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood perform songs from their short colaboration in the group Blind Faith as well as songs from Cream (Clapton's... read more

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Motown Records, Stevie Wonder performs his first concert recorded for television. Taped in October 2008 at London's 02 ... read more

The successful format of combining well-known singers with a light staging and full orchestra and chorus works well here for a re-staging of Chess the Musica... read more

Vincenzo Bellinis opera about a sleepwalking woman forced to prove her undying love for her betrothed. "La Sonnambula" is Latin for "The Somnambulist." The ... read more

Giacomo Puccini's beloved opera tells the tale of a Japanese geisha betrayed by her American lover. This production was created by Academy Award-winning dire... read more

Renowned folk artist Pete Seeger turned 90 in May of 2009. To celebrate, more than 40 artists whose music was influenced by Seeger gathered at New York's Ma... read more

Gioachino Rossini's operatic version of the classic tale of Cinderella. Maestro Maurizio Benini conducts the Metropolitan Orchestra. Sung in Italian with En... read more

Many African Americans who found themselves in Europe at the end of WWI stayed there because there was less racism than in the United States. Over the next ... read more

Documentation of the life and career of Herbert von Karajan, one of the most respected conductors of the 20th centry. Karajan was director of the Berlin Phi... read more

The Vienna Philharmonic performs an outdoor concert in the historic Baroque Park overlooking the Vienna's Schönbrunn Palace. Daniel Barenboim is the orchest... read more

The Police final tour, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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This comprehensive performance documentary, the first profile of the tenor in a decade, features the celebrated tenor – and general director of both the Wash... read more

An American favorite for his award-winning role in the hit TV series House, the versatile British actor Hugh Laurie showcases his musical side in an atmosphe... read more

Los Angeles Philharmonic Music Director Gustavo Dudamel and Creative Chair for Jazz Herbie Hancock launched the LA Phil’s 2011/12 season with a sparkling Geo... read more

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