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ARE BACK Great Performances: features the megastar soprano perform-perform LIGHTS... Uncle Vanya MUSIC OF ing Russian songs by Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Tchaikovsky, as well CAMERA... THE NIGHT as selections by Debussy, Dvořák, Fauré, and Strauss. Mezzo-soprano Elena MaxiMaxi- ARTS! WHILE SOME PERFORMING arts venues mova joins Netrebko for duets from are beginning to reopen, many remain dark Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” and IN THE BELOVED BACKSTAGE musical showcases the devastating impact of the due to the pandemic, leaving music lovers Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades.” 42nd Street, ingenue Peggy Sawyer saves pandemic to the arts industry and looks pining for the thrill of a live concert. Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli returns a Broadway show from closing when the at the ways arts organizations have adapted THIRTEEN is here to help with concert to Great Performances with Andrea show’s leading lady breaks her ankle. and evolved to meet the moment. premieres from Great Performances and Bocelli: Believe (Thu 24th, 8 p.m.), inspired Peggy learns the role in 36 hours, goes The collection of #PBSForTheArts Great Performances at The Met, filmed at by his 2020 album Believe and following out a youngster, and comes back a STAR. content will air on THIRTEEN and stream breathtaking locations around the world. in the spirit of his record-breaking “Music While this scenario may seem outlandish, on pbs.org/arts and the PBS Video app Great Performances: Mick Fleet- for Hope” Easter performance from it perfectly embodies the ultimate theat- (pbs.org/app). Curated conversation and wood & Friends (Thu 10th, 9:30 p.m.) Milan's Duomo cathedral in the rical mantra “The show must go on!” digital shorts will be available on PBS social celebrates the musical legacy of dark early days of the pan - We’re seeing many shining examples media platforms using #PBSForTheArts. Peter Green, a founding member demic. Recorded on spectacular of this centuries-old theatrical credo across Look for new specials and original digital of the rock super group Fleet- locations on the island of Malta, all genres in the arts world during the content from Great Performances, Amer- wood Mac. In February 2020, Mick Andrea Bocelli it features selections from Believe, pandemic—from theater and opera com- ican Masters, PBS NewsHour’s Beyond the Fleetwood organized an all-star including “Gratia Plena,” a previously panies that have been providing audiences Canvas series, the PBS Digital Studios tribute at the London Palladium featuring unreleased film song by Italian composer with a steady line-up of streaming produc- series Sound Field, and The WNET Group Christine McVie, Pete Townshend, Steven Ennio Morricone, a duet with Cecilia tions since their stages went dark, to in the coming months. Tyler, Bill Wyman, and other rock and Bartoli, and new interpretations of “Ave museums that are bringing their exhibits In the meantime, enjoy a variety of roll luminaries. Maria” and Leonard Cohen's “Hallelujah.” outdoors, to singers and musicians whose recent #PBSForTheArts premieres that Married tenor and soprano The Vienna Philharmonic’s annual street performances and virtual concerts are now available to stream, including duo Roberto Alagna and Alek- summer concert at the magnificent gardens provided hope and healing during the Great Performances: The Arts Interrupted, sandra Kurzak perform arias of Vienna’s Imperial Schönbrunn Palace was darkest days of the pandemic. a documentary special featuring the sur- and duets from the Château delayed last year until September due to #PBSForTheArts, a multiplatform cam- vival stories of arts organizations across de la Chèvre d’Or in the South the COVID-19 performance shutdown. Enjoy paign from PBS and The WNET Group, America; Inside the Met, a behind-the- Anna of France in Great Perfor- a front-row seat to Vienna Philharmonic celebrates the resiliency of the arts in scenes look at the Metropolitan Museum Netrebko mances at the Met: Aleksandra Summer Night Concert 2020 (Fri 25th, America during the COVID-19 pandemic of Art’s struggle to survive amid the pan- Kurzak & Roberto Alagna in 9 p.m.), courtesy of Great Performances. shutdown and reopening, fea- demic; and Great Performances: Uncle Concert (Sun 13th, 12 p.m.). Highlights Superstar tenor Jonas Kaufmann joins guest turing new performing arts Vanya, an Olivier Award-nominated West include the love duet from Madama But- conductor Valery Gergiev for works from content filmed within the con- End production of Anton Chekhov’s mas- terfly, “Caro elisir” from L’Elisir d’Amore, the concert stage, ballet, opera, and film to straints of the pandemic. The terpiece adapted by Conor McPherson, and the Mexican favorite “Cielito Lindo.” celebrate the concert’s theme of “Love.” variety of programming across and starring Toby Jones and Richard Armit- Recorded in February 2021 from the Great Performances programs will broadcast and digital platforms age from London’s Harold Pinter Theater. Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria, stream following each broadcast via Great Performances at the Met: Anna the series website (pbs.org/gperf) and Exclusive #PBSForTheArts blogs, published on pbs.org/arts, will also spot-

Netrebko in Concert (Fri 18th, 9 p.m.) the THIRTEEN app (thirteen.org/anywhere). (INSIDE THE MET). HILL, 2020 HILL © TAYLOR TAYLOR (UNCLE VANYA); JOHAN PERSSON BY PHOTO (BOCELLI). OPPOSITE: ROSSETTI LUCA BY PHOTO OF THE MET OPERA (NETREBKO); COURTESY PHOTO THIS PAGE: light the inspiring pandemic survival stories of artists across the country. From Broadway dancers and concert performers to classical musicians, Major funding for Great Performances is provided by The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, Rosalind P. Walter, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, the Seton visual artists, and beyond, audiences will discover how these creative, Melvin Charitable Trust, the Kate W. Cassidy Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold, The Starr Foundation, The Philip resourceful artists have kept the arts vivid and vital during the pandemic. and Janice Levin Foundation, the Thea Petschek Iervolino Foundation, Lorraine A. Egan and the late Richard T. Egan, the Estate of Worthington Mayo-Smith, Ellen and James S. Marcus, public television viewers and PBS. Interviews include Chelsey Hill, a Metropolitan Opera dresser and illustrator; Corporate support for the Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2020 is provided by provided by Rolex. and Donald Lee, a member of the inclusive dance company Heidi Latsky Dance. Corporate support for Great Performances at the Met is provided by provided by Toll Brothers, America’s luxury home builder®. Funding for Aleksandra Kurzak & Roberto Alagna in Concert and Anna Netrebko in Concert is provided by Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem. thirteen.org 3

of defiance and creative exuberance Philip Martin-Nielson, who is autistic, unleashed by the Stonewall riots. Their was bullied as a child as he had no lan- PIROUETTE name is an homage to Les Ballets Russes guage skills and an enormous obsession de Monte Carlo, a company that toured with ballet. “I was teased every day, made POWER the U.S in the 1950s, introducing Amer- fun of every day, hit every day. Ballet was icans to classical Russian ballet. the only place where I was able to dry American Masters: Ballerina Boys Their first performances were latenight out the tears,” he says in the film. At 23, Fri 4th, 9 p.m. shows in Off-Off Broadway lofts where he is a soloist with the Trocks, acclaimed they danced on a twelve-by-twelve stage for dancing Odette in “Swan Lake.” made of plywood with the audience Having emerged from under the perched on folding chairs. Today, the shadow of a hyper-masculine father, Dancers Josh Thake (left) and Duane Gosa (right) in "Stars and Stripes" Company performs for sold-out audi- Duane Gosa is keenly aware of the image ences around the world, from Tokyo to he projects as a Black male ballerina. FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS , Les Ballets dancers’ personal stories with the Com- Texas to New York City’s Joyce Theater. “Being in a company like the Trocks where Trockadero de Monte Carlo—the inter- pany’s history—from their early Their flamboyant style and impeccable I can freely be Black and gay and a dancer nationally acclaimed, all-male comic performances and rise to fame in the ballet technique have won over balleto- onstage is a great thing for young ballet company—has delighted critics 1970s, through their devastating losses manes and critics alike, and earned people to see. I’m fortunate to and audiences alike with their witty, during the AIDS crisis—culminating in a "Stars and them a passionate cult following. Stripes," inspired show them this is possible,” flamboyant send-ups of Swan Lake and performance of “Stars and Stripes “The amalgam of ballerina by Balanchine says Gosa, whose signature other ballet classics. Before every Forever,” their most overtly political finesse and daft diva antics role is the uproarious performance, these talented dance, at Central Park Summer- is brilliant, unsettling, rivet- “Dying Swan” solo. male ballerinas heap on Stage in 2019 as part of the ing—the epitome of Trocks We also meet Albie makeup, don tutus, and city’s Stonewall 50th Anni- style,” Alastair Macaulay Pretto, who was frus - emerge from the versary celebration. wrote in a 2016 New York trated by the limitations wings to perform the Rehearsal and perfor- Times review. of conventional male great female roles of mance footage of “Swan Despite their slapstick ballet roles. “At the tradi- classical ballet—in Lake” and other beloved antics and outrageous faux tional ballet companies, pointe shoes. Duane Gosa applies signature works bring the makeup backstage. stage names (Olga Suppho- men end up dancing behind As culture wars ignite Company’s vibrant history to zova, Nadia Doumiafeyva, and the girls, just partnering over gender fluidity and life. Interviews include Artistic Direc- Sergey Legupski, them. I felt that wasn’t enough LGBTQ rights, the story of the Trocks— tor Tory Dobrin, Company Founders Peter to name a fabulous for me,” he explains. “There is some- as they are affectionately known in the Anastos and Natch Taylor, former Trock few), the Trocks thing really empowering about dance world—could not be more relevant. Roy Fialkow, and historian Eric Marcus, have great affection performing in drag.” Albie Pretto The Company’s superb artistry and irre- author of Making Gay History. for the ballet traditions strikes a pose. Kevin Garcia was 12 years old when sistible comedy combine magically to Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo they are spoofing. Bal- he first discovered the Trocks. “It was break down entrenched stereotypes and was founded in 1974, fueled by a spirit lerina Boys reveals how being like seeing heaven open up,” he says. prejudices—one pirouette at a time. a member of this celebrated, American Masters: Ballerina Boys Discover the remarkable story of the highly unique dance company will stream following the broadcast on groundbreaking dance troupe in Ballerina has informed and transformed pbs.org/americanmasters and the THIR- Boys, a new documentary premiering the lives of its dancers. TEEN app (thirteen.org/anywhere). this month on American Masters in honor of LGBTQ Pride Month. Fiscal sponsorship of American Masters: Ballerina Boys is provided by Filmmakers Collaborative, with investment The film follows the Trocks on tour support provided by John Barylick. Major funding of the original episode American Masters: Ballerina Boys was provided The Trocks perform "Swan Lake." by Jody and John Arnhold, Emily Coward and Raphael Ginsberg, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation. through the South, interweaving the MERRYWIDOW COURTESY BOTTOM): TO (TOP NESPOLA. OPPOSITE LAURA CREDIT: PHOTOGRAPHER FILMS LLC MERRYWIDOW COURTESY THIS PAGE: HAYWOOD. JORDAN CREDIT: PHOTOGRAPHER FILMS LLC MERRYWIDOW NESPOLA; COURTESY LAURA CREDIT: PHOTOGRAPHER FILMS LLC Support for American Masters is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, AARP, Rosalind P. Walter, Judith & Burton Resnick, The Cheryl & Philip Milstein family, Vital Projects Fund, Lillian Goldman Programming Endowment, The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, Seton J. Melvin, Philip & Janice Levin Foundation, Ellen & James S. Marcus, The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation, The Ambrose Monell Foundation and public television viewers. thirteen.org 5

series will also spotlight content from a significant learning slide during the PBS stations across the country. summer, and there are lots of kids who The New York Times “Kids” column praised the series debut last summer, calling it a refreshing, much-needed “cultural fix” as many arts institutions remained closed. “This television series has not only public broadcasting’s bona fides, but also a mission to help prepare campers ages 5-10 for school,” the column noted. HAPPY Common Sense Media gave Camp TV "Space Day" activities from Camp TV Season 1 a rave review and an A+ in the “Educa- CAMPERS tional Value” category, noting, “This series don’t go to day camp. It’s an economic offers unique learning opportunities from and equity issue,” she explains. “We presenters with different kinds of teach- responded with significant partnerships— ing styles and subject matter. Kids (and from Carnegie Hall and The New Victory even some parents) will learn a lot from Theater to Liberty Science Center, the this well-rounded series.” zoos, museums, and libraries—to provide broadcast content that is free to all and reaches 99% of the public. Partnerships for the new season of Weekdays at 12 p.m., beginning July 6th Camp TV extend well across the country, Stream episodes and learn more at camptv.org including San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, South Dakota Children’s Museum, the THE SCHOOL YEAR has officially ended, Hansen, Wicked), who guides campers Exploratorium, and the Utah-based One but learning takes center stage all summer as they learn through play. Voice Children’s Choir. Sheppard and her long at THIRTEEN, thanks to Camp TV, Head counselor Zach kicks off each Camp TV head counselor Zachary Noah Piser team see a bright future for the series public media’s series for kids ages 5-10 episode with a welcome song and beyond the pandemic. that brings the magic, learning, and fun announces the day’s theme, which in “Camp TV and our other popular An enthusiastic summer camper of the day camp experience to your living Season 2 will include Summer Celebration instructional learning series Let’s Learn throughout her formative years, Melinda room! Season 2 premieres on July 6—more Day, Snow Day, Patterns Day, Inside Out NYC! are absolutely core to our mission,” Toporoff, writer and producer of Camp information to come in next month’s Day, Independence Day, Celebrate Your says Sandra Sheppard, Director and TV, knows what the magic of organized program guide—but happy campers can Name Day, Sports Day, Royalty Day, Travel Executive Producer, Kids’ and Media summer activities feels like and what it catch up on Season 1 now and enjoy the Day, Mismatched Shoe Day, Favorite Animal Education at The WNET Group. “We means to be a happy camper. brand new season at camptv.org. Day, Ocean Day, and more. Zach guides recognize that there are many kids who “Camp TV strives to capture the joy The summer adventure series debuted campers through a variety of activities, may not have access to the Internet, day a summer camp experience can last summer in response to the COVID-19 exploring nature, math, science, the arts, camps, or adequate technology. As a bring,” she says. “By guiding pandemic, which shut down summer movement, storytelling, writing, and more. public media provider, we know that viewers through new camps across the country. Providing fun Each episode includes special appear- our most important mission is to fill that activities and skills activities and learning adventures for kids ances by artists and teachers from leading gap and reach children and their families and exposing them missing out on the summer camp experi- cultural and educational institutions across with dynamic educational content.” to wow factor ence, Camp TV is hosted by a head the New York metropolitan area and Camp TV was created to fill a content, Camp TV is counselor played by exuberant Broadway beyond, as well as a storytelling segment very specific gap, according to informal education

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