Great Performances Season 46 Episodes

Episode 1

Episode #46.1

Fri, Feb 6, 2026

Episode 2

Gershwin: An American in Paris

Fri, Nov 2, 2018150 mins

PBS broadcast of An American in Paris - The Musical (2018) starring Leanne Cope and Robbie Fairchild.

Episode 3

Episode #46.3

Fri, Feb 6, 2026

Episode 4

The Sound of Music

Fri, Nov 9, 2018150 mins

American broadcast of The Sound of Music Live (2015) from the UK, starring Kara Tointon and Julian Ovenden.

Episode 5

Episode #46.5

Fri, Feb 6, 2026

Episode 6

Harold Prince: The Director's Life

Fri, Nov 23, 201883 mins

Directed by Lonny Price, the Great Performances retrospective celebrates the extraordinary career of producer and director Prince.

Episode 7

Tony Bennett & Diana Krall: Love Is Here to Stay

Sat, Nov 24, 201849 mins

Following on their Billboard #1 jazz album, Tony Bennett and Diana Krall honor great American songwriters George and Ira Gershwin with performances including "I Got Rhythm," "Love is Here to Stay" and "They Can't Take That Away From Me."

Episode 8

k.d. lang - Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special

Fri, Dec 14, 201882 mins

Landmarks Live In Concert returns to Great Performances from the magnificent Majestic Theater in downtown San Antonio, Texas for a 25th anniversary concert of Ingénue, the critically acclaimed 1992 album by singer-songwriter k.d. lang.

Episode 9

Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration

Fri, Dec 28, 2018

Episode 10

Episode #46.10

Fri, Feb 6, 2026

Episode 11

The Cleveland Orchestra Centennial Celebration

Fri, Jan 11, 2019

Episode 12

Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice

Fri, Jan 18, 2019120 mins

Episode 13

Orphée et Eurydice from Lyric Opera of Chicago

Fri, Jan 18, 2019

Episode 14

Doubt from the Minnesota Opera

Fri, Jan 25, 2019150 mins

A priest comes under suspicion for abusing a boy at his parish school. This opera is adapted from the same Pulitzer Prize winning 2005 play as Doubt (2008), each written by this librettist.

Episode 15

Episode #46.15

Fri, Feb 6, 2026

Episode 16

Andrea Bocelli @ 60

Sat, Mar 2, 2019

Join Great Performances for an international celebration of Andrea Bocelli's 60th Birthday. World renowned for being equally at home in the worlds of popular music and opera, Great Performances spotlights both sides of the tenor's career with a program of well-known arias spectacularly staged at Italy's Arena di Verona. Also featured are songs from Bocelli's new album, "Si," performed at a classy "all white dress code" party in the picturesque Italian coastal town of Porto Venere. Bocelli's son Matteo joins his father for a special performance of the duet "Fall on Me."

Episode 17

Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration

Sat, Mar 2, 2019

A celebration of singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's work features performances by James Taylor, Graham Nash, Chaka Khan, Norah Jones, Emmylou Harris, Seal and Rufus Wainwright.

Episode 18

Birgit Nilsson: A League of Her Own

Fri, Mar 22, 201990 mins

Overview of the career and life of soprano Birgit Nilsson, with brief samples of her singing.

Episode 19

Episode #46.19

Fri, Feb 6, 2026

Episode 20

Episode #46.20

Fri, Feb 6, 2026

Episode 21

Episode #46.21

Fri, Feb 6, 2026

Episode 22

Julius Caesar

Fri, Mar 29, 2019

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

Episode 23

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2019

Fri, Aug 9, 2019

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs an open-air concert from the gardens of Austria's Imperial Schönbrunn Palace; guest soloist Yuja Wang.