Next Episode of Great Performances is
Season 51 / Episode 10 and airs on 25 May 2024 01:00
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 continues its tradition of ringing in the New Year with the Vienna Philharmonic at the world-famous Musikverein. Under the baton of Grammy-winning and third-time guest conductor Daniel Barenboim, the Vienna Philharmonic performs a selection of favorite Strauss Family waltzes. The concert also features dancers from the Vienna State Ballet performing on location at Schönbrunn Palace and its park grounds and a performance by the world-famous Lipizzaner horses from The Spanish Riding School. Hugh Bonneville (Masterpiece: Downton Abbey) hosts the New Year's Concert for a fifth consecutive year.
Experience Shakespeare's comedic masterpiece from the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park set in South Harlem telling the story of the trickster Falstaff and the wily wives who outwit him in a celebration of Black joy, laughter and vitality.
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