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Great Performances is a television anthology series dedicated to the performing arts; the banner has been used to televise theatrical performances such as plays, musicals, opera, ballet, concerts, as well as occasional documentaries. It is produced by the PBS member stations WNET in New York City (originally in conjunction with KQED San Francisco, WTTW Chicago, Maryland Public Television, South Carolina ETV and KERA-TV of Dallas/Fort Worth).

The series is the longest running performing arts anthology on television, and has won an Emmy Award, three Peabody Awards^[1][2][3] and an Image Award, with nods from the Directors Guild of America and the Cinema Audio Society.^[4]

The program's spin-off, Great Performances: Dance In America, which began on PBS in 1976, concentrates solely on dance. The first episode "Sue's Leg: Remembering the Thirties" featured choreography by Twyla Tharp. Later episodes featured such performers as Mikhail Baryshnikov. Although it is not seen as often as previously, there have recently been new Dance in America programs, such as the Emmy-winning 2005 production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, starring Angel Corella, Gillian Murphy and the American Ballet Theatre.

In 2007, Great Performances began telecasting performances from the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series,^[5] a series of HD opera tapings re-purposed from their original purpose as Fathom Events films carried in high-quality movie theaters for a premium admission price.

Repeat guest hosts include Walter Cronkite, Julie Andrews and Whoopi Goldberg. Major underwriters throughout the show's run have included The National Endowment for the Arts, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS viewers, Exxon, Martin Marietta, Texaco, Deluxe, Duracell, Ernst & Young, Chase Manhattan Bank and UBS.

In 2009, a new theme music for Great Performances was introduced, composed by John Williams.^[6]

Episodes

Season 1 (1972–73)

• 
  The Rimers of Eldritch (November 4, 1972)


• 
  A Memory of Two Mondays (December 1972)


• Johann Sebastian Bach - Die hohe Messe, in h-moll BWV 232 (January 22, 1973)


• 
  Hogan's Goat (February 12, 1973)

Season 2 (1973–74)

• 
  The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (January 16, 1974)


• Enemies (January 23, 1974)


• 
  June Moon (January 30, 1974)


• Cyrano de Bergerac (February 6, 1974)


• Antigone (February 13, 1974)


• King Lear (February 20, 1974)


• In Fashion (March 20, 1974)


• Feasting with Panthers (March 27, 1974)


• Theater in America: A Touch of the Poet (May 15, 1974)


• Monkey, Monkey, Bottle of Beer, How Many Monkeys Have We Here? (May 22, 1974)

Season 3 (1974–75)

• The Windowing of Mrs. Holroyd (May 8, 1974)


• Bernstein at Tanglewood (December 25, 1974)


• The Seagull (January 5, 1975)


• The Ceremony of Innocence (March 1, 1975)


• The Rules of the Game (April 30, 1975)

Season 4 (1975–76)

• Dance in America: Martha Graham Dance Company (April 7, 1976)


• The Patriots (May 26, 1976)

Season 5 (1976–77)

• Secret Service (January 12, 1977)


• Arthur Rubinstein at 90 (January 26, 1977)

Season 6 (1977–78)

• 
  The Royal Family (November 9, 1977)^[7]


• Verna: USO Girl (January 25, 1978)


• Uncommon Women and Others (May 24, 1978)

Season 7 (1978–79)

• The Good Doctor (November 8, 1978)

Season 8 (1979–1980)

• The Five Forty-Eight (November 7, 1979)


• Samuel Beckett's Happy Days (June 25, 1980)

Season 9 (1980–81)

• Beverly! Her Farewell Performance (January 5, 1981)


• Great Performances at the Met: "L'Elisir D'Amore" (March 2, 1981)


• The Girls in their Summer Dresses and Other Stories (June 1, 1981)

Season 10 (1981–82)

• Norma (September 20, 1981)


• La Clemenza di Tito (October 19, 1981)


• Brideshead Revisited (January 18, 1982)

Season 11 (1982–83)

• Great Performances' 10th Anniversary Celebration (December 6, 1982)


• Ellington: The Music Lives On (March 7, 1983)


• The Innocents Abroad (May 9, 1983)

Season 12 (1983–84)

• Alice in Wonderland (October 3, 1983)


• Callas: An International Celebration (December 11, 1983)


• The Magic Flute (January 9, 1984)


• La Cenerentola (February 6, 1984)


• Choreographer's Notebook: Stravinsky Piano Ballets by Peter Martins (February 13, 1984)

Season 13 (1984–85)

Alice in Wonderland 1985)

• Dance in America: Baryshnikov by Tharp (October 5, 1984)


• 
  You Can't Take It With You (November 21, 1984)


• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1985 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1985)^[8]


• Judy Garland: The Concert Years (March 22, 1985)

Season 14 (1985-86)

• Doctor Fischer of Geneva (October 11, 1985)


• Three by Three (October 18, 1985)


• Laurence Olivier -- A Life (October 25, 1985)


• The Gospel at Colonus (November 8, 1985)


• (November 18, 1985)


• Sylvia Fine Kaye's Musical Comedy Tonight III (The Spark and the Glue) (November 22, 1985)


• The Importance of Being Earnest (November 29, 1985)


• San Francisco Ballet in Cinderella (December 7, 1985)


• Falstaff (December 13, 1985)


• Rossini at Versailles (December 27, 1985)


• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1986 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1986)^[8]


• 
  On the Razzle (January 3, 1986)


• (January 14, 1986)


• Heartbreak House (January 24, 1986)


• Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera (January 31, 1986)


• The Cotton Club Remembered (February 7, 1986)


• Irving Berlin’s America (March 7, 1986)


• Follies in Concert (March 14, 1986)


• Cavalleria Rusticana (March 21, 1986)


• Bernstein Conducts Haydn’s Mass in Time of War (March 28, 1986)


• Elektra (April 11, 1986)


• Early Days (April 18, 1986)


• Choreography by Jerome Robbins with the New York City Ballet (May 2, 1986)


• Grown Ups (May 9, 1986)


• Boxes: With the Sydney Dance Company (May 16, 1986)


• Bernstein on Brahms: Reflections and Performance (May 23, 1986)

Season 15 (1986-87)

• (September 15, 1986)


• (October 22, 1986)


• (November 18, 1986)


• (December 16, 1986)


• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1987 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1987)^[8]


• (January 21, 1987)


• (February 23, 1987)


• (March 23, 1987)

Season 17 (1988-89)

From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1989 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1989)[8]

Show Boat 1989 Paper Mill Playhouse production

Season 18 (1989-90)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1990 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1990)^[8]

Season 19 (1990-91)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1991 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1991)^[8]

Season 20 (1991-92)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1992 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1992)^[8]

Season 21 (1992-93)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1993 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1993)^[8]

Season 22 (1993-94)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1994 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1994)^[8]

Season 23 (1994-95)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1995 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1995)^[8]

Season 24 (1995-96)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1996 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1996)^[8]

Season 25 (1996-97)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1997 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1997)^[8]

Season 26 (1997-98)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1998 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1998)^[8]

Season 27 (1998-99)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 1999 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 1999)^[8]

Season 28 (1999-2000)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2000 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 2000)^[8]

Season 29 (2000-01)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2001 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 2001)^[8]

Season 30 (2001-02)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2002 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 2002)^[8]

Season 31 (2002-03)

• (September 24, 2002)


• (December 25, 2002)


• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2002 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 2003)^[8]


• (January 21, 2003)


• (March 25, 2003)


• (April 8, 2003)

Season 32 (2003-04)

• (October 29, 2003)


• (December 10, 2003)


• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2004 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 2004)^[8]


• (January 27, 2004)


• (February 10, 2004)


• (March 5, 2004)

Season 33 (2004-05)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2005 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 2005)^[8]

Season 34 (2005-06)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2006 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 2006)^[8]

Show Boat 1989 Paper Mill Playhouse production

Season 36 (2007-08)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2008 hosted by Walter Cronkite (January 1, 2008)^[8]

Season 37 (2008-09)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2009 hosted by Julie Andrews (January 1, 2009)^[8]

Show Boat 1989 Paper Mill Playhouse production

Season 38 (2009-10)

Show Boat 1989 Paper Mill Playhouse production

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2010 hosted by Julie Andrews (January 1, 2010)^[9]

Season 39 (2010-11)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2011 hosted by Paula Zahn (January 1, 2011)^[10]

Season 40 (2011-12)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2012 hosted by Julie Andrews (January 1, 2012)^[11]

Season 41 (2012-13)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2013 hosted by Julie Andrews (January 1, 2013)^[12]

Season 42 (2013-14)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2014 hosted by Julie Andrews (January 1, 2014)^[13]

Season 43 (2014-15)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2015 hosted by Julie Andrews (January 1, 2015)^[14]


• 
  Driving Miss Daisy (July 17, 2015)^[15]

Show Boat 1989 Paper Mill Playhouse production

Season 44 (2015-16)

• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2016 hosted by Julie Andrews (January 1, 2016)^[16]

Season 45 (2016-17)

• Grammy Salute to Music Legends (October 14, 2016)


• 
  Hamilton's America with Lin-Manuel Miranda (October 21, 2016)


• 
  The Hollow Crown: Henry VI, Part I (December 16, 2016)


• The Hollow Crown: Henry VI, Part II (December 18, 2016)


• The Hollow Crown: Richard III (December 25, 2016)


• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2017 hosted by Julie Andrews (January 1, 2017)^[17]


• 
  Bel Canto the Opera (January 13, 2017)


• New York City Ballet in Paris (February 17, 2017)


• 
  New York City Ballet Symphony in C (February 24, 2017)


• 
  Dudamel Conducts Tangos Under the Stars with the LA Phil (March 30, 2017)


• GP at the Met: Romeo et Juliette (April 13, 2017)


• GP at the Met: Nabucco (May 7, 2017)


• GP at the Met: Rusalka (June 18, 2017)


• 
  Andrea Bocelli - Landmarks Live in Concert (June 30, 2017)

Season 46 (2017-18)

• Havana Time Machine (October 6, 2017)


• Grammy Music Legends 2017 (October 13, 2017)


• 
  She Loves Me (October 20, 2017)


• 
  Noël Coward’s Present Laughter (November 3, 2017)


• 
  Indecent (November 17, 2017)


• 
  Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn (November 24, 2017)


• 
  Foo Fighters Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special (November 10, 2017)^[18]


• 
  From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2018 hosted by Hugh Bonneville (January 1, 2018)^[19]


• GP at the Met: Norma (January 26, 2018)


• 
  Nas Live from the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip Hop (February 2, 2018)


• 
  Movies For Grownups Awards with AARP the Magazine (February 23, 2018)


• GP at the Met: The Exterminating Angel (March 25, 2018)


• 
  Will.i.am and Friends featuring the Black Eyed Peas– Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special (April 20, 2018)


• GP at the Met: L'Elisir D'Amore (April 29, 2018)

Season 47 (2018-19)

• 
  The Sound of Music Live (November 9, 2018)^[20]

References

External links

• 
  Great Performances Guide at TV.Com
  


• 
  Great Performances on IMDb


• PBS: Great Performances