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Episode Detail: King Lear - Great Performances

A Royal Shakespeare Company production of Shakespeare's "King Lear," about a monarch (Ian McKellen) whose plan to split his kingdom among his daughters (Frances Barber, Monica Dolan and Romola Garai) leads to tragedy. Earl of Gloucester: William Gaunt. Edmund: Philip Winchester. Lear's Fool: Sylvester McCoy.

Episodes: King Lear - Great Performances - 771 total Episodes

1/1/2010: From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2010
12/23/2009: La Bohème
11/28/2009: Andrea Bocelli & David Foster: My Christmas
11/26/2009: Sting: A Winter's Tale
10/21/2009: Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic: The Inaugural Concert
9/16/2009: Vienna Philharmonic Summer Concert 2009
8/31/2009: Karajan or Beauty As I See It
8/26/2009: Harlem in Montmartre
8/1/2009: Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebration From Madison Square Garden
6/17/2009: 'Chess' in Concert
5/30/2009: Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood: In Concert From Madison Square Garden
5/30/2009: Stevie Wonder: Live at Last
5/27/2009: 'In the Heights': Chasing Broadway Dreams
3/25/2009: King Lear
3/1/2009: The Police: Certifiable
1/7/2009: Cyrano de Bergerac
1/1/2009: From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2009
12/17/2008: Dance in America: San Francisco Ballet's `Nutcracker'
11/29/2008: Hitman: David Foster and Friends
11/29/2008: Domingo, Netrebko & Villazon: Three Stars in Vienna
10/29/2008: Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2008: A Celebration of Leonard Bernstein
9/10/2008: Pavarotti: A Life in Seven Arias
5/28/2008: Maestro: Portrait of Valery Gergiev
4/24/2008: Primo
4/21/2008: Dance in America: Wolf Trap’s Face of America
3/26/2008: Peter & the Wolf
3/1/2008: James Taylor: One Man Band
3/1/2008: Martina McBride: Live in Concert
2/26/2008: The New York Philharmonic Live From North Korea
2/20/2008: Company
1/8/2008: Carnegie Hall Celebrates Berlin
1/1/2008: From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2008
12/18/2007: 'Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny' From LA Opera
12/1/2007: Vivere: Andrea Bocelli Live in Tuscany
12/1/2007: Great Performances at the Met: Viewers' Choice
11/28/2007: Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival Chicago
11/22/2007: The Israel Philharmonic 70th Anniversary Gala Concert
8/29/2007: Nureyev: The Russian Years
8/4/2007: Lionel Richie: Live in Paris
8/1/2007: Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story
6/20/2007: Dance in America: Dancing in the Light
6/6/2007: We Love Ella! A Tribute to the First Lady of Song
3/22/2007: Barenboim on Beethoven
3/3/2007: Loreena McKennitt: Nights From the Alhambra
3/3/2007: Jerry Lee Lewis: Last Man Standing
2/26/2007: Sting: Songs From the Labyrinth
1/1/2007: From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2007
12/31/2006: Garrison Keillor’s New Year’s Eve Special
11/23/2006: Beverly Sills: Made in America
10/29/2006: A Tribute to James Taylor
10/11/2006: Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2006
9/26/2006: Mozart at 250: The Salzburg Festival Celebration
9/18/2006: The Vienna State Opera: 50th Anniversary Reopening Concert
8/28/2006: Dance in America: 'Jewels' from the Paris Opera Ballet
8/1/2006: Vittorio: Dreams of Rome
7/12/2006: Bruce Springsteen: The Seeger Sessions Live at St. Luke’s
7/2/2006: Garrison Keillor’s Independence Day Special: A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood
6/21/2006: Dance in America: Beyond the Steps---Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
4/26/2006: 'South Pacific' in Concert from Carnegie Hall
3/4/2006: Color Me Barbra
3/4/2006: Andrea Bocelli: Amore Under the Desert Sky
2/27/2006: Paul McCartney: Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road
1/1/2006: From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2006
12/21/2005: The Nightingale (Le Rossignol)
12/3/2005: Michael Bublé: Caught in the Act
12/3/2005: My Name Is Barbra
11/30/2005: Renee Fleming: Sacred Songs and Carols
11/30/2005: Cream Reunion Concert
10/5/2005: From Shtetl to Swing
8/6/2005: Cook, Dixon & Young in Concert
6/20/2005: Dance in America: 'Swan Lake' with American Ballet Theatre
6/13/2005: Operatunity
4/6/2005: The Little Prince
3/1/2005: One Night with Rod Stewart
3/1/2005: Andrea Bocelli: Tribute on Ice
1/12/2005: Leonard Bernstein's 'Candide' with the New York Philharmonic
1/1/2005: From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2005
12/15/2004: Bill Irwin: Clown Prince
12/13/2004: Rodgers & Hammerstein's 'Cinderella'
12/9/2004: Hayley Westenra in Concert
12/5/2004: Josh Groban: Live at the Greek
12/1/2004: Eric Clapton: Crossroads Guitar Festival
10/27/2004: Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2004
9/8/2004: John Lennon's Jukebox
8/4/2004: From the Acropolis: A Salute to the Games with the Berlin Philharmonic
8/1/2004: All-Star Piano Extravaganza: The Verbier Festival Concert
6/16/2004: Keeping Score: MTT on Music: The Making of a Performance, Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony
6/16/2004: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in Performance
4/21/2004: Dance in America: 'The Dream' with American Ballet Theatre
3/3/2004: Concert for George
3/2/2004: Andrea Bocelli: Sacred Arias
3/1/2004: Harry Connick Jr.: Only You
1/28/2004: Dance in America: Acts of Ardor: Two Dances by Paul Taylor
1/7/2004: Degas and the Dance
1/1/2004: From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2004
12/10/2003: Berlin Philharmonic Europakonzert: From Lisbon
11/22/2003: Rodgers & Hammerstein's 'Oklahoma!'
10/29/2003: The Los Angeles Philharmonic Inaugurates Walt Disney Concert Hall
8/27/2003: Berlin Philharmonic Europakonzert: From Palermo
8/1/2003: Elton John at the Royal Opera House
7/28/2003: The Three Pickers: Legends of American Music
6/18/2003: Dance in America: Lar Lubovitch's 'Othello'
6/14/2003: Duetto: The Concert at the Roman Colosseum
5/7/2003: 30th Anniversary: A Celebration in Song
3/1/2003: The Great American Songbook
3/1/2003: Renee Fleming and Bryn Terfel: Music Under the Stars
2/26/2003: Kiss Me, Kate
2/3/2003: Dance in America: Born to Be Wild
1/1/2003: From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2003
12/25/2002: 'The Merry Widow' from the San Francisco Opera
11/30/2002: Josh Groban in Concert
11/30/2002: Natalie Cole: Ask a Woman Who Knows
10/16/2002: Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2002
10/2/2002: Making 'The Misfits'
9/22/2002: Berlin Philharmonic Europakonzert: From Istanbul
7/1/2002: Romeo and Juliet
6/1/2002: The Queen's Jubilee Gala: Live from Buckingham Palace
3/21/2002: Kurosawa
1/23/2002: Dance in America: From Broadway: Fosse
1/1/2002: From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2002
12/25/2001: 'The Nutcracker' from the Royal Ballet
12/11/2001: The Art of Violin
12/1/2001: Alessandro Safina in Concert: Only You
12/1/2001: Wheel of Life
10/10/2001: Joshua Bell: West Side Story Suite From Central Park
10/10/2001: Dance in America: Holo Mai Pele
8/29/2001: 'Little Women' from Houston Grand Opera
8/15/2001: Recording 'The Producers': A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
7/28/2001: Three Mo' Tenors in Concert
6/24/2001: Dance in America: Free to Dance
6/6/2001: Rudolf Nureyev's Don Quixote
4/11/2001: Jesus Christ Superstar
4/6/2001: Don Giovanni Unmasked
4/4/2001: Elizabeth Taylor: England's Other Elizabeth
3/4/2001: My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs
2/28/2001: The College of Comedy with Alan King III
1/21/2001: Copland's America
1/1/2001: From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2001
12/12/2000: From Mao to Mozart: Then and Now
12/2/2000: Paul Simon: You're the One---In Concert from Paris
11/23/2000: Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens, A Life in Animation
10/12/2000: Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2000
9/28/2000: Berlin Philharmonic Europakonzert: From Krakow
8/28/2000: 'La Traviata' from Paris
8/24/2000: Can't Stop Now
6/29/2000: La Forza del Destino
6/22/2000: Play On!
6/8/2000: The Art of Piano
6/1/2000: Berlin Philharmonic Europakonzert: Ode to Joy 2000
4/20/2000: College of Comedy with Alan King, Part II
4/6/2000: Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'
2/17/2000: Aida's Brothers and Sisters: Black Voices in Opera
1/20/2000: Central Park
1/1/2000: From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2000
12/21/1999: Dance in America: Le Corsaire with American Ballet Theatre
12/4/1999: Andrea Bocelli: Sacred Arias
12/2/1999: My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies
11/27/1999: Burn the Floor
10/21/1999: The Gershwins' 'Crazy for You'
10/6/1999: Carnegie Hall Opening Night 1999
7/8/1999: Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
5/12/1999: Swingin' with Duke: The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
3/6/1998: Frank Sinatra: The Very Good Years
9/10/1972: Liza with a 'Z'
Carnegie Hall: Opening Night 1997
Cats
The Elixir of Love
Monsignor Quixote
The Music of Miles Davis
Rigoletto
Steve Reich: A New Musical Language
Sweeney Todd
When Hell Freezes Over, I'll Skate
Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Flat
The Charterhouse of Parma
Count Dracula
Die Fledermaus
Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts Miami's New World Symphony
Mourning Becomes Electra
Everybody Dance Now
La Pastorela
Peter Sellars Directs 'Cosi Fan Tutte'
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Dance in America: 'The Green Table'
Dance in America: Balanchine Celebrates Stravinsky
The Life of Verdi
The Marriage of Figaro
Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra
Pavarotti and the New York Philharmonic
Toscanini: Maestro
Von Karajan: Beethoven's Fifth
Bernstein on Brahms
Buddenbrooks
Dance in America: 'La Sylphide'
'Der Rosenkavalier,' the Bavarian and Klieber
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
'Guys and Dolls': Off the Record
Placido Domingo: A Concert for Planet Earth
Harry Connick Jr. and His Orchestra: Swinging Out with Harry
The Maestros of Philadelphia
Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Bowl
Burt Bacharach...This Is Now
The Music of Kander and Ebb: Razzle Dazzle
Variety and Virtuosity: The American Ballet Theatre Now
Swan Lake
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
Pavarotti and Friends
The Life of Verdi
The Man from Moscow
Dance in America: Accent on the Offbeat
Pavarotti Returns to Naples
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Bernstein: 'Mass'
Melba
Andrew Lloyd Webber: 'Requiem'
Horne, Pavarotti and Sutherland
Ah, Wilderness
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Chester Mystery Plays: Christmas
Emil Gilels and the New York Philharmonic
The Five-Forty-Eight
The Gospel at Colonus
Melba
Melba
Amazing Grace: America in Song
American Ballet Theatre: 'Billy the Kid' and 'Les Patineurs'
Brideshead Revisited
Cavalleria Rusticana
On Giant's Shoulders
In Fashion
Zalmen or the Madness of God
Uncle Vanya
An Evening with Alan Jay Lerner
Moliere
Brideshead Revisited
Dance in America: A Hymn for Alvin Ailey
Mahler's Symphony No. 8
The Norman Conquests: Living Together
The Man from Moscow
Brideshead Revisited
Otello
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center Opening Night Gala
Carnegie Hall: A Christmas Concert
20th Anniversary Special Celebrating Creativity in American Style
The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
The Sorceress
Natalie Cole's Untraditional Traditional Christmas
Music for the Movies: The Hollywood Sound
Julie Andrews: Back on Broadway
The Rake's Progress
Dance in America: The Wrecker's Ball---Three Dances by Paul Taylor
Sam Shepard: Stalking Himself
'A Streetcar Named Desire,' from the San Francisco Opera
The Rodgers and Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty
'Turandot' at the Forbidden City
The Making of 'Turandot' at the Forbidden City
Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks
Dance in America: 'The Catherine Wheel'
The Importance of Being Earnest
The First Breeze of Summer
'Goya,' with Placido Domingo
Arthur Rubinstein
Gregory Hines' Tap Dance in America
Copland Conducts Copland
The Colored Museum
The N.Y. City Ballet: Jerome Robbins
A Bowl of Beings
Mourning Becomes Electra
The Pilobolus Dance Theatre
The Dining Room
Show Boat
Thank You Comrades
From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1999
Rossini's 'Cinderella'
Dance in America: Two by Dove
Bach's Brandenburg Concertos: Virtuoso Concerto
Sam Sherpard's 'True West'
St. Matthew Passion
'The Girl of the Golden West,' from the Metropolitan Opera
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Pat Hobby Teamed with Genius
Dance in America: Jerome Robbins
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
The Pennsylvania Ballet
Orpheus
The Mahabharata: War
Von Karajan: Beethoven's Ninth
Bernstein: American Music
Charles Gounod's 'Faust'
Count Dracula
The Four Seasons
The Man from Moscow
Our Town
Kathleen Battle and Wynton Marsalis: Baroque Duet
Paul McCartney's 'Liverpool Oratorio'
The House of Bernarda Alba
The Orchestra
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
Sir Norbert Smith: A Life
Dance in America: Balanchine in America
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Steps Ahead
Pavarotti and an Italian Tenor
A Symphony of Rhythm: Solti Conducts Beethoven's Seventh
On the Town in Concert
Dance in America: Garth Fagan's Griot New York
Peter, Paul and Mary: Lifelines
Peter Sellars Directs 'The Marriage of Figaro'
Abduction from Seraglio
Christmas with Flicka
The Paul Taylor Dance Company
Mahler's Symphony No. 6
Dance in America: A Balanchine Tribute
Dance in America: Twyla Tharp---Oppositions
Who's Happy Now?
Solti, the Chicago Symphony and Strauss
The Collection
Tartuffe
Dance in America: Busby Berkeley---Going Through the Roof
Ormandy Conducts Tchaikovsky
A Memory of Two Mondays
'La Bayadere,' from the Royal Ballet
Unforgettable, with Love: Natalie Cole Sings the Songs of Nat King Cole
The Lyric Opera of Chicago: 'Anthony and Cleopatra'
Abbado in Berlin---First Year
Dance in America: A Tudor Evening with the ABT
'Mefistofele,' from the San Francisco Opera
The Mahabharat: Exile in the Forest
Spike Lee and Co.: Do It a Cappella
Dance in America: Three Dances by Martha Graham
The Real McTeague
Carnegie Hall: Opening Night 1994
Carnegie Hall: Opening Night 1995
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: A Table at Ciro's
Merce Cunningham
Talking With
From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1996
Black and Blue
Thomas Hampson: I Hear America Singing
San Francisco Opera Gala Celebration
Carnegie Hall: Opening Night 1998
Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th Birthday Celebration
Von Karajan: Brahms
Dance in America: A Balanchine Celebration
Carnegie Hall: Opening Night 1996
Von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic: 'Don Quixote'
The Norman Conquests: Table Manners
Bernstein Conducts Haydn's Mass 'In Time of War'
Oedipus Rex
Capriccio, from Salzburg
Common Pursuit
Jose Carreras, Diana Ross, Placido Domingo---Christmas in Vienna
Dance in America: A Balanchine Celebration
Dance in America: A Balanchine Celebration
Paddy Chayefsky's 'The Mother'
The World of Jim Henson
Pavarotti: My World
Musicals, Great Musicals: The Arthur Freed Unit at MGM
The College of Comedy with Alan King
Porgy and Bess: An American Voice
'Henry V' at Shakespeare's Globe
Bernstein on Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
Brideshead Revisited
Dance in America: Bob Fosse---Steam Heat
December Flower
Julie Andrews: In Concert
La Cenerentola
O Youth and Beauty!
The Patriots
Bernstein Conducts Mahler's Symphony No. 5
Bernstein: Mahler's Symphony No. 1
Moliere
Mourning Becomes Electra
Mozart's 'Requiem'
Gotterdammerung, Act I
House of Mirth
The Juilliard Strong Quartet
Trailblazers of Modern Dance
The Easter Chester Mystery Plays
A Life in the Theatre
The Mikado
Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera
Sleeping Beauty
From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1997
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Bobby McFerrin: Loosely Mozart
Brahms: Lieder Recital
Peter Sellars Directs 'Don Giovanni'
Gotterdammerung, Acts II and III
Relatively Speaking
Rubinstein at 90
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Twyla Tharp: 'Sue's Leg'
Uncommon Women and Others
Verdi: 'Requiem Mass'
Verdi's 'Requiem' (N.Y. Philharmonic)
Wagner's Ring: Das Rheingold
Bernstein: Mahler's Symphony No. 9
Bernstein on Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Dance in America: American Indian Dance Theatre
Don Quixote
Linda Ronstadt's 'Canciones de Mi Padre'
The Margot Fonteyn Story
King Lear
Dangerous Liaisons
Dance in America: The ABT at the Met
Schubert's Mass No. 6 in E-flat Major
Buddenbrooks
From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1998
Buddenbrooks
Hard Times
Laurence Olivier: A Life
Brideshead Revisited
Mourning Becomes Electra
Baryshnikov on Broadway
Forget-Me-Not Lane
The Story of Gospel Music
The Regard of Flight
Brother to Dragons
Shooting the Chandelier
Lean by Jarre
Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman Sing Spirituals
Laurence Olivier: A Life
Ellington: The Music Lives On
Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters
Star-crossed Lovers
The Noel Coward Story
Divas!
Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler's House
Bernstein, Mahler and the Israel Philharmonic
Solti's Beethoven Fifth Symphony Revisited
The N.Y. Philharmonic with Vladimir Ashkenazy
The Royal Family
Princess Grace Remembered
Cavalleria Rusticana---Placido Domingo
The Bournonville Dances
20th Anniversary Special---Celebrating Creativity American Style
Turandot
La Boheme
The Fred Astaire Songbook
Les Miserables in Concert
Dance Black America
Bernstein: Conductor, Soloist, Teacher
'Tannhauser,' from Bayreuth
Beatrix Potter's 'The Tailor of Gloucester'
Zizi, Je T'aime
The Ceremony of Innocence
Balanchine
The Consul
Songs of Six Families
A Song for Dead Warriors
Wagner
The Martha Graham Dance Company: Clytemnestra
Leonard Bernstein: The Gift of Music
Vladimir Horowitz: A Reminiscence
Creating 'Ragtime'
Emmeline
Robert Altman's Jazz '34
Dance in America: Nureyev and the Joffrey in a Tribute to Nijinsky
End of Summer
Ormandy at 80
Richard Burton: In from the Cold
Rostropovich Plays Haydn
Baryshnikov Dances Twyla Tharp
The Aspern Papers
Fidelio
A Global Celebration
Dance in America: Michael Moschen in Motion
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Art of Singing: Golden Voices of the Silver Screen
Alice in Wonderland
Dance in America: Alvin Ailey
Quartet
St. Matthew Passion
The Miser
Miles Davis: A Tribute
Dance in America: Renaissance Revisited
The Mound Builders
El Gato Montes
'Pagliacci': Placido Domingo
Tosca
Waiting for Godot
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Gian Carlo Menotti: A Musical Musician
To the Lighthouse
Bernstein on Brahms: Reflections
Elektra
Divine Drumbeats: Katherine Dunham and Her People
Quartermaine's Terms
Solti Conducts Mendelssohn
Sarah
Solti Conducts Rossini
The Taming of the Shrew
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
10th Anniversary
Boehm, the Vienna Philharmonic and Mozart
Brideshead Revisited
Buddenbrooks
The Coronation of Poppea
Dance in America: Agnes de Mille
Mehta, the L.A. Philharmonic, Mozart and Bartok
Bach's 'St. John Passion'
The Barber of Seville
Professional Foul
The Turn of the Screw
Solti Conducts
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Wolf Trap Salutes Dizzy Gillespie
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Aida (from the Houston Grand Opera)
Bernstein at 70
Boxes with the Sydney Dance Company
Dance in America: A Night at the Joffrey
An Englishman Abroad
Judy Garland: The Concert years
Bach's Christmas Oratorio: The Nativity
Carlos Klieber Conducts Beethoven
Dance in America: Stravinsky Piano Ballet
Don Giovanni
Richard Burton: In from the Cold
Rubinstein: Chopin
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Verdi's 'Falstaff'
Willie Stark
Wagner
Wagner's Ring: Siegfried
Rossini at Versailles
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Two Duets
Abide with Me
Balanchine: 'The Spellbound Child'
Bernstein Conducts 'West Side Story'
Eccentricities of a Nightingale
'Follies' in Concert
The Queen of Spades
The Mikado
The Sorrows of Gin
The Taylor Company: Recent Dances
Ullmann: 'The Human Voice'
Vanessa
Wagner
Wagner's Ring: Die Walküre, Acts II and III
Bernstein on Brahms: Symphony No. 2
The Best of Broadway
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Madama Butterfly
Marilyn Horne's Great American Songbook
The Return of Ulysses
Richard Burton: In from the Cold
Salome
The Soldier's Tale
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Samson and Delilah
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Wagner
The Trial of the Moke
The Winslow Boy
Balanchine
Brideshead Revisited
Dance in America: Mark Morris
Easter Tells Such Dreadful Lies
La Clemenza di Tito
Balanchine-Stravinsky: Genius Has a Birthday
Bruckner's Symphony No. 3
The Seagull
Purlie
Wagner
Wagner's Ring: Die Walküre
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: The Old Reliable
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: The Golden Land
You Can't Take It with You
Sea Marks
Solti Conducts Schubert (Symphonies No. 6 and No. 8)
Bach's Christmas Oratorio: New Year's Cantata
Bach's Brandenburg Concertos: Concerto Grosso
Callas: An International Celebration
The Contractor
Guests of the Nation
Verdi's 'Macbeth'
Wagner's Ring: Die Walküre
Solti on Tour
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Closed Set
Wynton Marsalis: Blues and Swing
The Year of the Dragon
The School for Scandal
Taking My Turn
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
All Over
Antigone
Chamber Music Society with Chick Corea
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Good Doctor
James Galway
Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Horne: Lincoln Center
'La Bayadere': American Ballet Theatre
Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music
Buddenbrooks
Celebrating Gershwin: S'Wonderful
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dance in America: A Balanchine Tribute
Leonard Bernstein
Madama Butterfly
Mrs. Reinhardt
The N.Y. Philharmonic: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
Balanchine
Bernstein Conducts the Boston Symphony
Melba
Dance in America: 'Cinderella'
Down in the Valley
Edith Wharton: 'Looking Back'
Hansel and Gretel
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Beyond the Horizon
Big Blonde
Brideshead Revisited
Celebrating Gershwin: The Jazz Age
The City Center Joffrey Ballet
The New Jersey Chamber Music Society and the Tokyo String Quartet
The New York City Opera: 'Madama Butterfly'
Karajan in Salzburg
The Life of Verdi
Master Harold...and the Boys
Moliere
The Time of Your Life
Heartbreak House
The Life of Verdi
Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'
Balanchine
Beyond the Mainstream
Dance in America: An Evening with Martha Graham
Music by Richard Rodgers
An Evening with Itzhak Perlman
The Life of Verdi
Moliere
On the Move: The Central Ballet of China
Possessions
'Romeo and Juliet': The Ballet
Three by Balanchine
Wagner's Ring: Siegfried, Act III
Baryshnikov Dances Balanchine with the American Ballet Theatre
The Arcata Promise
Asinamali
Chamber Music Society with Itzhak Perlman
The Cotton Club Remembered
Enemies
Ernest Bloch
Moliere
A Month in the Country
Broadway Sings the Music of Jule Styne
Carmen
Pagliacci
Paradise Lost
'The Dream': The Royal Ballet
Early Days
Bernstein: Mahler's Symphony No. 4
Bernstein: Tchaikovsky
Brideshead Revisited
Dance in America: The Search for Nijinsky's Rite of Spring
Dance in America: 'The Magic Flute'
John Gielgud: An Actor's Life
L'Africaine
Ormandy Conducts 'Pictures at an Exhibition'
The Philadelphia Orchestra with Andre Watts at Wolf Trap
Bernstein: Mahler's Symphony No. 2
Beverly
The Most Happy Fella
Mozart in Salzburg
A Great Day for Bonzo
Irving Berlin's America
The Music Makers: An ASCAP Celebration of American Music at Wolf Trap
Dance in America: 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
The Ebony Tower
Grown Ups
Maria Callas: An Operatic Biography
'The New Moon': The New York City Opera at Wolf Trap
An American Christmas in Words and Music
Brideshead Revisited
Cinderella
Nixon in China
Dance in America: Dancing for Mr. B---Six Balanchine Ballerinas
Festival Spoleto! USA
June Moon
Monkey, Monkey, Bottle of Beer, How Many Monkeys Have We Here?
Once in a Lifetime
She Loves Me
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Feasting with Panthers
Gotterdammerung
On the Razzle
An Only Child
Placido Domingo Celebrates Seville
The Prince of Homburg
'The Ring' for Television
Secret Service
Cunning Little Vixen
Dance in America: Paul Taylor---'Roses' and 'Last Look'
'The Girls in Their Summer Dresses' and Other Stories by Irwin Shaw
Hard Times
The Man from Moscow
Tosca
Von Karajan: Brahms' Symphony No. 4
Wagner's Ring: Siegfried, Acts I and II
Bacall on Bogart
Beckett's 'Happy Days'
Bernstein on Brahms: Reflections
Buddenbrooks
The Charterhouse of Parma
Nureyev's 'Cinderella'
Out of Our Fathers' House
The Mahabharata
Dance in America: American Indian Dance Theatre Dances for the New Generations
In the Wings: Angels in America on Broadway
Passing the Baton
The Music of Kurt Weill: September Songs
Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II
The Charterhouse of Parma
Dance in America: David Gordon's 'Made in U.S.A.'
Hadr Times
Laurence Olivier: A Life
Ozawa
Dance in America: 'Speaking in Tongues'
The Metropolitan Opera Silver Anniversary Gala
Dance in America: Ballerinas---Dances by Peter Martins
'The Masked Ball,' from the Metropolitan Opera
Dance in America: 'The Hard Nut'
Jammin' Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway
Suddenly Last Summer
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
John Barry Moviola
Pete Townshend's 'PsychoDerelect'
Legendary Maestros: The Art of Conducting
La Cenerentola
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
The Life of Verdi
Martha Graham: 50th Anniversary
The Paul Taylor Dance Co.
Paul Taylor: Two Landmark Dances
A Touch of the Poet
Verna: USO Girl
Brideshead Revisited
Buddenbrooks
Dance in America: Balanchine and Cunningham
Hard Times
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
La Voix Humaine
The Pilobolus Dance Theatre
Bladerunners with Torvill and Dean
Lar Lubovitch Dance Co. and Momix: Pictures on Edge
Vaclav Havel: 'Largo Desolato'
Musical Comedy Tonight III
The Rimers of Eldritch
Staying On
Summer
Baa Baa Blacksheep
The Charterhouse of Parma
Count Dracula
Eliot Feld Ballet
Mourning Becomes Electra
The Norman Conquests: Round and Round the Garden
The Mahabharata: A Game of Dice
Dance in America: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company
Richard Tucker Opera Gala 1991
Hamlet
The World of Jewish Humor
Nureyev
Dance in America: 'Billboards'
Dido and Aeneas

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Premiered: November 04, 1972, on PBS

Rating: TV-PG

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Premise: PBS's signature performing-arts series showcases dance, drama, comedy and music ranging from orchestral and operatic to Broadway and the blues. The Lanford Wilson drama `The Rimers of Eldritch' was its first presentation and `Brideshead Revisited' was perhaps its most famous. There have been more than 600 `Great Performances' all told. Some might have been only `reasonable performances' (as Robin Williams once quipped), but many others were distinguished, among them some 50 Emmy nominees.

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