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For the past 40 years, GREAT PERFORMANCES has been proud to bring you arts programming that has moved and inspired you. The pioneering primetime performing arts series first premiered on public television stations on November 4, 1972, with a broadcast produc-tion of the Lanford Wilson play, The Rimers of Eldritch, starring a promising up-and-coming actress named Susan Sarandon. GREAT PERFORMANCES began with a simple mission: to provide the American public with the best of the performing arts, and to preserve a space in primetime for great artists to tackle the great works that they were most interested in performing, as well as showcase hidden gems of the repertoire that deserved to be seen by a wider audience.

Whether it’s a new production of a timeless classic from the Metropolitan Opera, electric performances by the Paul Taylor Dance Company, or Barbra Streisand’s historic homecoming concert in Brooklyn, our 40th Anniversary season carries on this tradition and celebrates the series’ legacy as a home for the leading artists of the world to do what they do best: give the performances that audiences love.

In short, GREAT PERFORMANCES may be turning 40 years old this year, but we’re certainly not over the hill. We’re expanding our reach online and in social media, allowing viewers to interact even more with their favorite programs and performers through exclusive web content. But most importantly, we’re broadcasting some of the most ambitious projects we’ve ever undertaken as we look to continue our mission for the next 40 years: inviting great artists to bring their “Great Performances” to America’s living rooms.

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GREAT PERFORMANCES at The MetSeason SevenJanuary 18, 9pmL’ELISIR D’AMORENEW PRODUCTION (Donizetti)

February 24, 12pmOTELLO(Verdi)

March 17, 12pmTHE TEMPESTNEW PRODUCTION (Adès)

April 14, 12pmLA CLEMENZA DI TITO (Mozart)

May 5, 12pmUN BALLO IN MASCHERANEW PRODUCTION (Verdi)

May 17, 9pmRIGOLETTONEW PRODUCTION (Verdi)

June 9, 12pmAIDA (Verdi)

June 30, 12pmLES TROYENS (Berlioz)

July 14, 12pmMARIA STUARDANEW PRODUCTION (Donizetti)

July 28, 12pmPARSIFALNEW PRODUCTION (Wagner)

August 18, 12pmFRANCESCA DA RIMININEW PRODUCTION (Zandonai)

September 1, 12pmGIULIO CESARENEW PRODUCTION (Handel)

January 1, 2:30pm & 8pmFROM VIENNA: THE NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATION 2013

January 1, 9:30pmBROADWAY MUSICALS: A JEWISH LEGACY

January 4, 9pmPAUL SIMON’S GRACELAND JOURNEY: Under African Skies

March 2013ANDREA BOCELLI: LOVE IN PORTOFINO

May 3, 9pmPAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY IN PARIS

July 26, 9pmDANCING AT JACOB’S PILLOW: NEVER STAND STILL

August 2, 9pmVIENNA PHILHARMONICSUMMER NIGHT CONCERT 2013

Fall 2013THE HOLLOW CROWN – SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORY PLAYSRICHARD IIHENRY IV, Part OneHENRY IV, Part TwoHENRY V

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MOBY-DICK from San Francisco Opera

Stephen Sondheim’sCOMPANY with the New York Philharmonic

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December 2013BARBRA STREISAND: BACK TO BROOKLYN

THE DUKES OF SEPTEMBER

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In celebration of the series’ 40th anniversary,

GREAT PERFORMANCES hosts an all-star homecoming at

Lincoln Center. Through performance and remembrance,

a stellar roster of diverse alumni share their personal

stories of what GREAT PERFORMANCES means to them as

America’s only ongoing primetime stage for all varieties

of the performing arts. Julie Andrews, Audra McDonald,

Don Henley, David Hyde Pierce, Josh Groban, Itzhak

Perlman, New York City Ballet’s Peter Martins, Patti Austin

with Take 6, Met Opera star El na Garan a, and Michael

Bublé are among the guest stars gathering to applaud the

four decades of performing arts that have captivated

“viewers like you” across America.

PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY IN PARIS

Dance Awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Obama in March 2012,

the beloved dance festival Jacob’s Pillow shows no signs of resting on its laurels. Narrated by director-choreographer Bill T. Jones, Dancing at Jacob’s Pillow: Never

Stand Still chronicles the remarkable story of how of how an abandoned farm in western Massachusetts evolved into an international modern dance mecca. Richly illustrated with performances, the overview also features insightful interviews with leading dance figures including Paul Taylor, Mark Morris, Suzanne Farrell and the iconic Merce Cunningham.

Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty marks the popular choreographer’s return to the music of Tchaikovsky and completes his acclaimed reinterpretations of the composer’s masterworks, represented most famously by Bourne's international blockbuster Swan Lake featuring all-male swans. With rich gothic imagery, Bourne retells the timeless fairy tale of a princess cursed to sleep for one hundred years to create a decade-spanning supernatural love story.

At an age when most artists’ best work is behind them, renowned choreographer Paul Taylor remains a vibrant, relevant and powerful force. Recorded during the Taylor company’s 2012 summer tour, Paul Taylor Dance Company In Paris showcases two of Taylor’s masterworks: Brandenburgs, featuring music from J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos No.3 and No.6; and Beloved Renegade, his 2008 ballet inspired by the life and work of Walt Whitman set to Francis Poulenc’s Gloria.

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In Barrymore, stage and screen legend Christopher Plummer portrays the illustrious—and notorious—John

Barrymore in an acclaimed film adaptation of William Luce’s play, capturing the famously combative star in a desperate last attempt to recreate his celebrated performance as Richard III. Stephen Sondheim’s breakthrough musical Company delights audiences once again in a New York Philharmonic gala concert performance starring Neil Patrick Harris as a perennial bachelor whose network of not-so-helpful married friends and lovers includes Stephen Colbert, Patti LuPone, Christina Hendricks, Anika Noni Rose, Jon Cryer, Craig Bierko and Martha Plimpton. And on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, GP presents a special encore the landmark production starring Hugh Jackman in a star-making performance.

VIENNA PHILHARMONIC SUMMER NIGHT CONCERT 2013

GREAT PERFORMANCES continues to be the primetime destination for the best

in classical music with the world’s greatest orchestras, conductors and soloists. Be

sure to join GP this summer when the Vienna Philharmonic returns to the magnificent

gardens of Schönbrunn Palace for another magical summer night concert under the

baton of guest conductor Lorin Maazel. And in opera, American composer Jake Heggie

takes on the Melville classic Moby-Dick in San Francisco Opera’s acclaimed new

production starring tenor sensation Jay Hunter Morris as the obsessive Captain Ahab.

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In fall 2013, the original “game of thrones” comes to

GREAT PERFORMANCES in a lavishly produced miniseries

The Hollow Crown from executive producer Sam Mendes. This

epic film adaptation fuses four of Shakespeare’s history plays –

Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V – into a continuing

chronological narrative, and features riveting performances by

Shakespeare veterans Jeremy Irons, Patrick Stewart and David

Suchet, as well as up-and-coming stars Ben Whishaw (The Hour),

Rory Kinnear (Skyfall), Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers) and

Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey).

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THE DUKES OF SEPTEMBER

In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of his seminal album Graceland, Paul Simon returns to South Africa and looks back on the

making of his critically acclaimed but politically controversial 1986 release. In the picturesque Italian seaside village of Portofino, international sensation Andrea Bocelli serenades audiences with an all-new concert special Love in Portofino, featuring popular love songs from the Mediterranean and across the world. Rock & roll royalty Donald Fagen (Steely Dan), Michael McDonald (The Doobie Brothers) and Boz Scaggs join forces to form their own new super group The Dukes of September, delighting audiences with high octane performances of their greatest hits, along with other chart-topping favorites from the ’60s and ’70s. And the legendary Barbra Streisand makes an historic homecoming Back to Brooklyn at the new Barclays Center, marking Streisand’s first hometown concert since childhood. Also featured are special guests Il Volo, Chris Botti and Jason Gould who joins his superstar momfor an emotional duet.

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GREAT PERFORMANCES at the Met returns to PBS for a seventh season of

12 lavish productions, presenting classic favorites alongside rarely performed gems

and featuring the world’s leading stars of opera. The current season offers several

bold new productions, including Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, Handel’s Giulio Cesare

and a provocative production of Verdi’s Rigoletto set in 1960s Las Vegas. Season

highlights also include two Met Opera premieres: Thomas Adès’ The Tempest (with

the composer at the podium) and a new production of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda.

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GREAT PERFORMANCES is produced for PBS by THIRTEEN for WNET and is funded byThe Irene Diamond Fund,Vivian Milstein,The Agnes Varis Trust,The Starr Foundation,public television viewers and PBS.

Major series funding is also provided bythe Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund,The National Endowment for the Arts,the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust,the Anne Ray Charitable Trust,The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation,The Lewis “Sonny” Turner Fund for Dance,Jody and John Arnhold,the Paul W. Zuccaire Foundation,and Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown.

Corporate support for the Vienna Philharmonictelecasts is provided by Rolex.Additional support for the Vienna Philharmonictelecasts is provided byVera von Kuffner Eberstadt.

Corporate support for GREAT PERFORMANCES at the Met

is provided by Toll Brothers.

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