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Great Performances

Season 53

Great Performances

October 3, 2025 18 Episodes

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The Magic of Grace Bumbry
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The Magic of Grace Bumbry

10.0
October 3, 2025 • 54m

Discover Grace Bumbry’s inspiring rise to global opera fame. Spotlighting her historic performances, the film explores the racial barriers she overcame to triumph in her 1966 performance as "Carmen."

Great Performances at the Met: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
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Great Performances at the Met: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

10.0
October 19, 2025 • 163m

Rossini’s effervescent comedy retakes the stage in Bartlett Sher’s madcap production. Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the infamous barber of Seville, with Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio.

Tiler Peck: Suspending Time
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Tiler Peck: Suspending Time

10.0
November 7, 2025 • 55m

Follow acclaimed ballerina Tiler Peck as she overcomes injury to reclaim her place on stage and debut her own choreography with New York City Ballet, revealing the resilience and artistry behind a modern-day prima ballerina.

Twelfth Night
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Twelfth Night

10.0
November 14, 2025 • 113m

The Shakespearean comedy of mistaken identity tells the romantic misadventures of twins Sebastian and Viola after they survive a shipwreck, including revenge plots and tricks of love. Recorded this summer at the newly renovated Delacorte Theater in Central Park, the production is directed by Tony Award nominee Saheem Ali.

Nutcracker from English National Ballet
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Nutcracker from English National Ballet

10.0
December 16, 2025 • 83m

Experience the holiday classic in a new light, featuring over 100 dancers and musicians performing at the London Coliseum.

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2026
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From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2026

10.0
January 1, 2026 • 126m

The famed Vienna Philharmonic rings in the New Year with its annual concert from Vienna's Musikverein conducted for the first time by Yannick Nézet-Séguin with performances by the Vienna State Ballet and location segments hosted by Hugh Bonneville.

Movies for Grownups® Awards 2026 with AARP The Magazine
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Movies for Grownups® Awards 2026 with AARP The Magazine

February 22, 2026 • 105m

Iconic and beloved screen and stage performer Alan Cumming returns as host for this awards show in which Adam Sandler receives the Career Achievement Award.

Samara Joy at Royal Albert Hall
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Samara Joy at Royal Albert Hall

February 27, 2026 • 55m

A number one album and a double Grammy-win in 2023 put jazz vocalist Samara Joy on the map, officially establishing the Bronx native as the next jazz sensation and a legend in the making, with frequent comparisons to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. Fresh from another double win at the 2025 Grammys, Joy makes her much-anticipated debut at London’s legendary Royal Albert Hall.

Great Performances at the Met: La Bohème
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Great Performances at the Met: La Bohème

March 20, 2026 • 143m

Experience Zeffirelli’s beloved production set in 19th-century Paris telling the story of Puccini’s young artists and lovers that share joy, passion, and heartbreak featuring Juliana Grigoryan as Mimì and Freddie De Tommaso as Rodolfo.

Great Performances at the Met: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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Great Performances at the Met: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

April 1, 2026 • 169m

In this new adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel set shortly before the outbreak of World War II, two Jewish cousins invent an anti-fascist superhero and launch their own comic-book series, hoping to recruit America into the fight against Nazism.

Now Hear This – “Brahms: Free But Alone”
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Now Hear This – “Brahms: Free But Alone”

April 10, 2026 • 54m

Johannes Brahms was a quiet, private person, but he lived a full life, bearing a responsibility he didn’t want, a woman he couldn’t be with, and a legacy he couldn’t live up to. Scott Yoo journeys across Germany with pianist Elisabeth Brauss and cellists Johannes Moser and Max Hornung to find a window into Brahms’ inner life.

Great Performances at the Met: La Sonnambula
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Great Performances at the Met: La Sonnambula

April 12, 2026 • 165m

Nadine Sierra stars as Amina in Bellini’s tale of love lost and found. This new production by Rolando Villazón—the tenor who has embarked on a second career as a director—retains the opera’s original setting in the Swiss Alps but uses its plot to explore the emotional and psychological valleys of the mind.

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Now Hear This – “Everyone Loves Joplin”

April 17, 2026

Scott Joplin was the king of ragtime, a new kind music for the turn of the 20th century. Rick Benjamin’s Paragon Ragtime Orchestra takes Scott Yoo back in time to experience the music, movies and style of that era.

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Now Hear This – “The Call of Istanbul”

April 24, 2026

Istanbul sits at the crossroads of Asia and Europe, a melting pot of diverse peoples, languages and ideas. With star Turkish pianist Fazil Say, conductor Çem Mansur, and a host of Anatolian folk and Turkish jazz musicians, Scott Yoo and his wife, flutist Alice Dade, explore the city.

Now Hear This – “The Iceland Sound”
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Now Hear This – “The Iceland Sound”

May 1, 2026

Fewer people live in Iceland than in Wichita, Kansas, yet it produces some of the best musicians in the world. To find out how, Scott Yoo crosses this sunlit, rainy, volcanic land of extremes to meet composers Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Daniel Bjarnason, popular musician JFDR, instrument makers, music historians, and one of Iceland’s most famous chefs.

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S53 E17

Suffs

May 8, 2026

Created by Tony Award winner Shaina Taub, this musical recorded from Broadway tells the story of the American suffragist movement and the remarkable friendships, heartbreak, and action that brought women together—or, in some cases, tore them apart.

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S53 E18

Irving Berlin’s Top Hat

May 15, 2026

Inspired by the iconic 1935 movie musical starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, this acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre revival recorded from the West End in January 2026 is directed and choreographed by three-time Tony winner Kathleen Marshall.

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S53 E19

An Evening with Nicole Scherzinger

May 22, 2026

Recorded in October 2025, Nicole Scherzinger performs at London’s Royal Albert Hall for the first time in her first major UK solo show in 13 years. Accompanied by a full orchestra, Scherzinger sings a mix of beloved Broadway standards and pop hits from her career as lead singer of The Pussycat Dolls.

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