Latest Great Performances Stories
New companion documentary, Wagner's Dream, chronicling the backstage challenges of creating the Met's landmark production, begins week-long Wagner festival NEW YORK, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Robert Lepage's acclaimed new production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, will air on Great Performances at the Met, September 11-14 in primetime each night on PBS stations (check local listings), as a major television event. (Logo:...
NEW YORK, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- What does it mean to be Hispanic? This Sunday, May 20 at 8 p.m. ET, the season finale of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the PBS television series that explores issues of race and identity through the genealogy of some of America's best-known personalities, seeks to answer that question. Through the family histories of actors Michelle Rodriguez and Adrian Grenier, and Linda Chavez -- an author, syndicated...
Verdi's Ernani with Angela Meade, Marcello Giordani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto on THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the Met Sunday, June 17 at 12 p.m. on PBS Marco Armiliato conducts Pier Luigi Samaratini's colorful production which will air at 12:30 p.m. on THIRTEEN in New York and repeated Thursday, June 21 at 8:30 p.m. NEW YORK, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Four extraordinary singers star in Verdi's Ernani airing on THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the...
William Christie conducts the work, which uses arias by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others to tell a new story featuring characters from Shakespeare's The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream NEW YORK, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Enchanted Island, a world premiere work that combines Baroque music with a new, English-language libretto featuring characters from Shakespeare's The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and a starry cast including Danielle de Niese,...
This intimate portrait of an eco-paradise is seen through the eyes of a pair of adventurers confronting their own struggles. Visit pbs.org/nature for more info. NEW YORK, April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Deep in the untamed heart of Idaho lies the Frank Church - River of No Return Wilderness, part of the largest roadless area left in the lower 48 States. Named in honor of Idaho Senator Frank Church, and for the rugged Salmon River that flows through it, the vast 2.5...
Finding Your Roots builds on the success of African American Lives 1 and 2 and Faces of America, journeying deep into the ancestry of remarkable individuals Harry Connick, Jr., Robert Downey, Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, John Legend, Branford Marsalis, Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Rodriguez, Barbara Walters, and many other well-known names learn long-lost secrets from their family histories. NEW YORK, March 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The basic drive to discover who we are and...
NEW YORK, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released today by WNET: She was the Pride of the British Empire and a leading example of state-of-the art engineering in a time of groundbreaking scientific and technological innovations on a global scale. Yet the RMS Titanic sank less than three hours after striking an iceberg on April 14, 1912. Everyone knows about the many deaths in the icy waters, the fates of the rich and famous on the ship's maiden...
Best-selling author Amy Tan hosts the commemorative concert and narrates the historical mini-documentaries woven throughout the special NEW YORK, Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- San Francisco Symphony at 100, the San Francisco Symphony's Centennial Season opening night gala, conducted by Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas, will air on THIRTEEN's Great Performances, Friday, March 30 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). (Logo:...
Broadway's Judy Blazer and Shuler Hensley topline affectionate re-creation of the early Yiddish Theater NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater, a celebration of Yiddish theater pioneers Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky by their grandson, Michael Tilson Thomas, Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, airs Thursday, March 29 at 8 p.m. (check local listings), on THIRTEEN's Great Performances....
The first revival of Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch's lauded staging features the original cast of the opera's Met premiere NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Philip Glass's inspirational opera Satyagraha (Sanskrit for "truth force"), in the first revival of Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch's innovative 2008 production, airs on THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the Met Sunday, March 25 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). In New York, THIRTEEN will...
