Temporadas
Temporada 34 — Episodios
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Dance in America: 'Jewels' from the Paris Opera Ballet
A collective journey from synagogue choirs to Harlem hot spots, from Yiddish theater to musical extravaganza, from klezmer to ragtime, from symphonic jazz to swing. All the way from the Bowery to Tin Pan Alley to Broadway to Hollywood - FROM SHTETL TO SWING recounts the ebullient story of a musical metamorphosis born in darkest Russia.
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Vienna State Opera 50th Anniversary Reopening Gala
The Vienna State Opera House reopened on November 5, 1955, after being bombed during World War II. This concert, performed on November 5, 2005, in celebration of the reopening's 50th anniversary, broght together some of the world's leading opera stars and premier conductors to perform selections from the 1955 opera season.
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Mozart at 250: The Salzburg Festival Celebration
To celebrate Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 250th birthday a gala concert is presented with the Vienna Philharmonic. Mozart's most memorable works are featured.
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Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2006
Carnegie Hall's opening night of the season features The Cleveland Orchestra performing an evening of Viennese favorites.
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A Tribute to James Taylor
Various artists perform songs made famous by James Taylor, including Taylor himself. Song list: Shower The People -- The Dixie Chicks Rainy Day Man -- Bonnie Raitt Secret O'Life -- India.Arie Mexico -- Jackson Browne, David Crosby, and Sheryl Crow You Can Close Your Eyes -- Sting Everybody Has The Blues -- Dr. John and Taj Mahal Carolina In My Mind -- Alison Krauss and Jerry Douglas Country Road -- Keith Urban Millworker -- Bruce Springsteen You've Got A Friend -- Carole King She A Little Light -- James Taylor How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) -- James Taylor Fire And Rain -- James Taylor
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Beverly Sills: Made in America
A tribute to Beverly Sills with performances by Sills and others, and clips from past performances
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From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2006
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Paul McCartney: Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road
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Color Me Barbra
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Andrea Bocelli: Amore Under the Desert Sky
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Garrison Keillor's New Year's Eve Special
Garrison Keillor hosts a live New Year's Eve broadcast from Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.
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From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2007
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Great Performances at the Met: The Magic Flute
Mozart's "The Magic Flute," with Matthew Polenzani (Tamino); Nathan Gunn (Papageno); Erika Miklósa (Queen of the Night); René Pape (Sarastro); Ying Huang (Pamina); Greg Fedderly (Monostatos); and Jennifer Aylmer (Papagena). James Levine conducts.
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Great Performances at the Met: I Puritani
Anna Netrebko stars in Bellini's bel canto opera "I Puritani" as a bride-to-be whose wedding day is disrupted when her betrothed (Eric Cutler) helps the condemned Queen Enrichetta (Maria Zifchak) escape from the Roundheads (Oliver Cromwell supporters during the English Civil War of the 1640s). Sir Riccardo Forth: Franco Vassallo. Sir Giorgio Walton: John Relyea. Lord Walton: Valerian Ruminski. Sir Bruno Robertson: Eduardo Valdes.
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Sting: Songs from the Labyrinth
Sting and acclaimed Bosnian lute player Edin Karamazov perform songs of Elizabethan musician John Dowland.
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Loreena McKennitt: Nights From the Alhambra
Canadian Celtic artist Loreena McKennitt performs at Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain.
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Jerry Lee Lewis: Last Man Standing, Live
Jerry Lee Lewis performs selections from his current album, "Last Man Standing." This album, released 50 years after his first album debuted, features new duet versions of his hit songs performed with a variety of singers.
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Barenboim on Beethoven
Legendary pianist Daniel Barenboim performs five Beethoven sonatas.
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Great Performances at the Met: The First Emperor
Placido Domingo stars in “The First Emperor” as Chinese ruler Qin Shi Huang, who attempts to unify his kingdom with a national anthem penned by a childhood-friend-turned-composer (Paul Groves). Complications arise, however, when Qin's daughter Yueyang (Elizabeth Futral) seduces the songsmith. Composed by Tan Dun, who won an Oscar for his “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” score and cowrote the libretto with novelist Ha Jin. Shaman: Michelle DeYoung. Yueyang's Mother: Susanne Mentzer.
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Great Performances at the Met: Eugene Onegin
Tchaikovsky's “Eugene Onegin,” starring Renée Fleming as Tatiana, a young Russian who's rebuffed by the object of her affection, Eugene Onegin (Dmitri Hvorostovsky). Years later, after she has married a prince (Sergei Aleksashkin), the two meet again and Onegin realizes his error. Olga: Elena Zaremba. Larina: Svetlana Volkova. Lenski: Ramón Vargas.
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Great Performances at the Met: The Barber of Seville
Gioacchino Rossini's classic comic opera “The Barber of Seville” stars Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez as Count Almaviva, whose pursuit of the lovely Rosina (Joyce DiDonato) is aided by the wily barber Figaro (Peter Mattei). Standing in his way is her guardian Dr. Bartolo (John Del Carlo), who plans to marry her himself. Don Basilio: John Relyea. Fiorello: Brian Davis. Ambrogio: Rob Besserer.
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We Love Ella: A Tribute to the First Lady of Song
April 25, 2007, would have been Ella Fitzgerald's 90th birthday. To celebrate, Great Performances has created an all-star tribute to the great jazz singer.
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Great Performances at the Met: Il Trittico
“Il Trittico,” Puccini's collection of three one-act operas. “Il Tabarro” concerns doomed lovers (Maria Guleghina, Salvatore Licitra); “Suor Angelica,” is about the salvation of a nun (Barbara Frittoli); “Gianni Schicchi” is a charismatic scoundrel (Alessandro Corbelli) out to steal a fortune willed to the church.
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Dance in America: Dancing in the Light
A follow-up to 2001s survey of African American dance, Free to Dance, Dancing in the Light included full performances that were not in the original series due to time restrictions.
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Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story
A celebration of the Stax Records company of Memphis Tennessee with commentaries by former performers, executives and others. In it\'s heyday in the 1960s Stax recorded songs for such stars as Otis Redding, Booker T. and the MGs and Richard Pryor.
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Lionel Richie: Live in Paris
Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter Lionel Richie performs a concert of his famous hits and newer songs from his latest CD, Coming Home.
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Nureyev: The Russian Years
Recently discovered sources that were silenced in Soviet Russia now speak freely about the great dancer Rudolph Nureyev. Interviews with friends and colleagues trace his early career and his decision to defect in 1961. Includes archival footage never before seen in the West.
