Great Performances

Name: Great Performances
Released: 1972-11-04T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Angela Lansbury, Derek Jacobi, George Hearn

TV Show · Documentary · Music

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.

1972 · 3h 56m

Starring Angela Lansbury, Derek Jacobi, George Hearn

Director Tony Palmer

Taking Note — Leland Ko

Cellist Leland Ko shares the impact his teachers have had on him on his musical journey.
Taking Note — Keila Wakao

First taking up the violin at age three, Keila Wakao was raised in a musical family.
Taking Note — Nathan Meltzer

Nathan Meltzer first picked up the violin while living in Vienna and attending elementary school.
Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2026

The Vienna Philharmonic performs an open-air concert from the gardens of Austria's Schönbrunn Palace; bass-baritone Bryn Terfel performs arias from "Falstaff" and Tevye's song from "Fiddler on the Roof."
Taking Note — Dmitry Yudin

Pianist Dmitry Yudin immigrated from Moscow to the United States to follow his older sister.
Great Performances at the Met: Tristan und Isolde

Soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s meditation on love and death.