70 stories by "Christina Knight"
Opera's most popular double bill, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, starring Marcelo Ãlvarez, Eva-Maria Westbroek, and Patricia Racette, comes to Great Performances at the Met Sunday, S…
Natalie Portman hosts Dudamel Conducts a John Williams Celebration with the LA Phil on Great Performances Friday, July 24 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). Itzhak Perlman is the…
Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez star in Rossini's La Donna del Lago, the Met's first production of the bel canto showcase, on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, August 2 at 12 p.m…
Natalie Portman hosts Dudamel Conducts a John Williams Celebration with the LA Phil on Great Performances Friday, July 24 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). Itzhak Perlman is the…
Renée Fleming (Hanna) and Nathan Gunn (Danilo) perform an excerpt of their Act II duet “Hello, Here’s a Soldier Bold” from Lehár’s The Merry Widow. Costumes ar…
Broadway star Kelli O’Hara makes her Met Opera debut as the Baron's coquettish wife Valencienne in Lehár's effervescent operetta The Merry Widow. O’Hara and the women’s …
Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, starring soprano Anna Netrebko, shares a double bill with Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, starring Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko. Acclaimed Polish film director M…
Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy, a 2010 hit on Broadway, comes to television with five-time Tony Award winner and three-time Academy Award® nominee Angela La…
Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo stars as the tortured poet unlucky in love in Offenbach's opera. Here he sings a duet with English mezzo-soprano Christine Rice, who plays the Venetian courtes…
On the 23rd anniversary of the LA riots, Great Performances presents a special encore of Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, a riveting theatrical account of the 1992 riots from mult…
In her role debut, American soprano Erin Morley plays the mechanical doll Olympia in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Metropolitan Opera. Morley’s vivid ballerina o…
Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo stars as the tortured poet unlucky in love in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, May 10 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local …
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ("The Master-Singer of Nuremberg") receives its first Great Performances at the Met broadcast, Sunday, April 12 at 11 am on PBS (check local listings; in N…
Annie Lennox: Nostalgia Live in Concert, featuring Great American Songbook classics from her Grammy-nominated album Nostalgia, will air on THIRTEEN's Great Performances in April 3, at 10 …
Met Music Director James Levine leads Wagner's grand comedy Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ("The Master-Singer of Nuremberg") in its first Great Performances at the Met broadcast, Sunday, A…
Mark Morris's signature work L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato comes to television for the first time, hosted by Mikhail Baryshnikov. The performance was filmed July 2014 at the Teatro …
Mark Morris interview conducted by Elisa Lichtenbaum of WNET. Choreographer Mark Morris first garnered international fame for L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato when it debuted at the Th…
A perfect primer for the evening-length work L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato is provided by choreographer Mark Morris, his dancers and his artistic collaborators, who explain the stru…
Annie Lennox performs a soulful and rich rendition of the American Songbook classic “Summertime,” which George Gershwin composed for his opera Porgy and Bess (1935). The lyrics a…
Here are excerpts from Mark Morris's signature, evening-length work, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, filmed at his group’s engagement at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain, in Ju…
The Met's effervescent production of Rossini's classic comedy Il Barbiere di Siviglia " featuring some of the most instantly recognizable melodies in all of opera " returns to Great Performa…
Featuring Josh Groban, Renée Fleming and Joshua Bell, Great Performances partners with the New York Philharmonic and music director Alan Gilbert for a concert of memorable movie themes with…
Anita Rachvelishvili sings Carmen’s “Habanera” from Act I of Bizet’s Carmen, in a Richard Eyre production conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado at the Metropolitan Opera…
Bizet's ever-popular Carmen returns with Anita Rachvelishvili as the gypsy seductress on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, February 22 at 12 noon on PBS (check local listings). In New Yo…
Russian star soprano Anna Netrebko makes her North American debut as the fatally ambitious Lady Macbeth. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi conducts his first-ever performances of Verdi's t…
