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Great Performances brings the best in the performing arts from across America and around the world to a US television audience. It presents a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.

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Great Performances
Full episodes
23 VIDEOS

The Thomashefskys
1:54:31 Air Date 03/29/12

Let Me Down Easy
1:54:38 Air Date 01/13/12

LA Phil performs An American in Paris
20:01 Air Date 01/06/12

Selections of From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2012
42:22 Air Date 01/01/12 Expires 07/01/12

The Little Mermaid from San Francisco Ballet
2:26:46 Air Date 12/16/11

Il Postino from LA Opera
2:26:45 Air Date 11/25/11

Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk
54:16 Air Date 09/30/11

Placido Domingo: My Favorite Roles
1:23:11 Air Date 09/23/11

A Concert for New York
1:34:06 Air Date 09/11/11

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night 2011
34:54 Air Date 08/19/11

Rigoletto from Mantua
2:23:42 Air Date 07/15/11

Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival 3
1:54:46 Air Date 06/06/11
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Previews
48 VIDEOS

GP at the Met: The Enchanted Island
0:30 Air Date 05/18/12

GP at the Met: Faust
0:30 Air Date 05/13/12

GP at the Met: Rodelinda
0:30 Air Date 04/22/12

San Francisco Symphony at 100
5:00 Air Date 03/30/12

The Thomashefskys
0:36 Air Date 03/29/12

Satyagraha
0:30 Air Date 03/25/12

Sondheim! The Birthday Concert - Preview
0:30 Air Date 03/16/12

The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall
0:30 Air Date 03/03/12

Don Giovanni
0:30 Air Date 02/26/12

Memphis
0:30 Air Date 02/24/12

Tony Bennett: Duets II
0:30 Air Date 01/27/12

GP at the Met: Anna Bolena
0:30 Air Date 01/20/12
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Shorts
67 VIDEOS

Danielle de Niese in The Enchanted Island
1:58 Air Date 05/18/12

Joyce DiDonato in The Enchanted Island
1:46 Air Date 05/18/12

David Daniels in The Enchanted Island
1:55 Air Date 05/18/12

Jonas Kaufmann in Faust
1:05 Air Date 05/13/12

Jonas Kaufmann and René Pape in Faust
1:53 Air Date 05/13/12

Jonas Kaufmann and Marina Poplavskaya in Gounod's Faust
2:14 Air Date 05/13/12

Mio Caro Bene
1:19 Air Date 04/22/12

Vivi Tirianno
1:58 Air Date 04/22/12

Stephanie Blythe in Rodelinda
1:06 Air Date 04/22/12

Images from Satyagraha
1:33 Air Date 03/25/12

Clip from The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall
1:21 Air Date 03/03/12

The "Champagne Aria" from Don Giovanni
1:48 Air Date 02/26/12
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