Great Performances

Season 54

2026 · 6 episodes · 7h 14m in all · 10.0/10

Episodes

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   1. Great Performances at the Met: Tristan Und Isolde

   13 Sept 2026 · 237 min · 10.0/10

   Soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s meditation on love and death with tenor Michael Spyres as the love-drunk Tristan. The production features new staging by director Yuval Sharon and is Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first time leading this opera at the Met.

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   2. Great Performances at the Met: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

   18 Oct 2026 · 113 min

   American composer Gabriela Lena Frank makes her Met debut with her first opera, a magical-realist portrait of painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. With a libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz, the opera is fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth.

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   3. Tammy Wynette: Forever Yours

   23 Oct 2026 · 84 min

   Tammy Wynette’s musical success and legacy was achieved through personal grit and a determination to sing, write music, and raise herself above her humble beginnings. From Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Great Performances pays tribute to Wynette’s musical legacy, presenting a star-studded concert that includes her iconic duets with former husband George Jones.

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   4. Jimmy Webb: American Songwriter

   30 Oct 2026

   Jimmy Webb, Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett and Ashley Campbell perform "Highwayman" in this concert honoring the work of Jimmy Webb.

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   5. Romeo & Juliet

   Airs 13 Nov 2026

   Experience the Bard's classic from the Public Theater's new Free Shakespeare in the Park staging set in the fictional border town of Verona, where Romeo and Juliet speak to each other in Spanish, the language of their private world.

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   6. Episode 6

   Date TBA