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2010-11 Season Preview Season GREAT 2010-11 Season Preview PERFORMANCES I ol NNOTT I I l s ig OE J ano G I st I Cr Great Performances is produced for PBS by THIRTEEN for WNET.ORG, and is funded by The National Endowment for the Arts, Vivian Milstein, The Irene Diamond Fund, The Starr Foundation, KAREN OLIVO 2010-11 season The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, SONDHEIM! public television viewers, and PBS. Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Placido Domingo, Major series funding is also provided by Julia Novikova MACBETH The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, RIGOLETTO from Mantua (also available at pbs.org/gperf) Joseph A. Wilson, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Wednesday, October 27, 2010 and Jody and John Arnhold. CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Corporate support for the Vienna Philharmonic Pierre BOulEz Conducts telecasts is provided by Rolex. MAHlER’S 7TH Additional support provided by Wednesday, November 24, 2010 Vera von Kuffner Eberstadt. from: SONDHEIM! THE BIRTHDAY CONCERT Corporate support for Great Performances at the Met is provided by Toll Brothers. Wednesday, December 29, 2010 David Horn CElebracióN! Executive Producer Gustavo Dudamel & the lA Phil The show goes on at with Juan Diego Flórez GREAT PERFORMANCES online. Saturday, January 1, 2011 To learn more, visit wnet.org or pbs.org, where you can enjoy full programs, program As we enter the closing months of 2010 and turn the corner into FROM VIENNA: excerpts, interviews, blogs, and other activities the “teen years” of the new millennium, a sense of reflection THE NEW YEAR’S CElEBRATION 2011 taking you behind the scenes and center stage. and change is in the air. And this feeling of the old transforming Winter/Spring 2011 into the new is a recurring theme in GREAT PERFORMANCES’s FRONT COVER: MACBETH, MaNuEl HaRlaN/Illuminations TV - WNET.ORG upcoming season. PlACIDO DOMINGO: MY FAVORITE ROlES Launching our season is a riveting new film adaptation of Macbeth, ERIC ClAPTON CROSSROADS a daring contemporary adaptation of the Shakespeare classic starring GuITAR FESTIVAl 3 Sir Patrick Stewart. From Broadway, a generational cross-section of Dance In America: Broadway’s best gather to celebrate Stephen Sondheim’s 80th MIAMI CITY BAllET DANCES BAlANCHINE & THARP birthday. In classical music, four concerts embrace innovation THE HITMAN RETuRNS: and heritage: Pierre Boulez and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra David Foster & Friends in a performance of Mahler’s 7th, the LA Phil’s Celebración! with HARRY CONNICK, JR., Gustavo Dudamel and Juan Diego Flórez, Carnegie Hall’s 120th IN CONCERT ON BROADWAY anniversary concert, and the Vienna Philharmonic’s traditional New RIGOlETTO from Mantua Year’s Day concert hosted by Julie Andrews. BIllY JOEl: lAST PlAY AT SHEA – In dance, Miami City Ballet makes their long awaited Dance in The Concert America debut. Opera fans won’t want to miss the on-location CARNEGIE HAll AT 120 production of Rigoletto from Mantua, as well as the new season of VIENNA PHIlHARMONIC GREAT PERFORMANCES at The Met. And the legendary Placido SuMMER NIGHT CONCERT 2011 Domingo takes a look back at his extraordinary career. In popular music, GP has front row seats to show-stopping concerts with Billy GREAT PERFORMANCES I Joel, Eric Clapton, Harry Connick, Jr., and “Hitman” David Foster. at The Met — Season Five ol I l ig On the following pages you’ll find more details on a dynamic Winter/Spring 2011 ano G I ZUBIN MEHTA mix of the best in the performing arts — all courtesy of public BORIS GODuNOV – New Production st I RIGOLETTO from Mantua (Mussorgsky) Cr television stations, and viewers like you. DON PASQuAlE (Donizetti) DON CARlO – New Production (Verdi) NNOTT I s lA FANCIULLA DEl WEST OE (Puccini) J NIXON IN CHINA (Adams) PATRICK STEWART IPHIGÉNIE EN TAuRIDE MACBETH (Gluck) G OR . LUCIA DI lAMMERMOOR NET (Donizetti) V - W t lE COMTE ORY – New Production (Rossini) ons I nat CAPRICCIO mi (R. Strauss) Il TROVATORE (Verdi) AUDRA McDONALD SONDHEIM! Manuel Harlan/Illu Theater David HyDE Pierce Elaine Stritch Patti LuPone Bernadette Peters Mandy Patinkin & Dance SONDHEIM! The Birthday Concert NNOTT I s OE : J OTOS PH Dance In America SONDHEIM Miami CITy Ballet ALL DANCES Balanchine & Tharp SQUARE DANCE Patrick Stewart’s Tony Award-nominated tour de force performance as Macbeth comes to GREAT PERFORMANCES in a riveting new film adaptation by director Rupert Goold, also starring the Tony-nominated Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth. On the occasion of Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim’s 80th birthday, the New York Philharmonic celebrates with host David Hyde Pierce and a cast of Broadway’s best, including laura Benanti, Matt Cavanaugh, Michael Cerveris, Victoria Clark, GOLDEN SECTION Jenn Colella, Jason Danieley, Joanna Gleason, Nathan Gunn, George Hearn, Blaine Hoven, Patti luPone, Marin Mazzie, Audra McDonald, John McMartin, Donna Murphy, laura Osnes, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Maria Riccetto, Bobby Steggert, Elaine Stritch, Jim Walton, and Chip zien, as well as Karen Olivo with dancers from the current hit production of West Side Story; longtime Sondheim music director Paul Gemignani conducts. And Miami City Ballet takes the spotlight on Dance in America, showcasing the company’s critically acclaimed performances of signature works by George Balanchine and Twyla Tharp. y WESTERN SYMPHONY ph ra G oto H an P M : © Kyle Fro TOS PHo MIAMI CITY BALLET G OR . NET V - W t ons I nat mi MACBETH Manuel Harlan/Illu PATRICK Stewart, KATE FLEETWOOD Popular Song I ell Riv ole Nic uarez BILLy JOEL: s oto by Myrna ph LAST PLAy AT SHEA - © 2010 The Concert HARRy CONNICK, JR., IN CONCERT ON BROADWAy GP returns to Chicago—America’s Blues capital—for Eric Clapton’s third Crossroads Guitar Festival, featuring such guitar greats as Jeff Beck, Robert Cray, Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Johnny lang, John Mayer,, Steve Winwood, Ron Wood and more; Bill Murray returns to host. In Las Vegas, music “Hitman” David Foster rallies an- other all-star cast for a new Foster & Friends concert, including Michael Bolton, Charice, n Mazur vi Natalie Cole, lara Fabian, Chaka Khan, Kenny loggins, Seal, Ruben Studdard, Donna Ke Summer and more. If you weren’t able to make it to Billy Joel’s sold-out concerts at Shea Stadium in July 2008 shortly before the arena’s demolition, be sure to tune-in to GP for a thrilling concert film capturing all the excitement onstage and off, including a duet with Joel’s special guest Paul McCartney. And after 20 years, Harry Connick, Jr., makes an SRO return to Broadway in a concert of standards and favorites, performed in Connick’s trademark New Orleans style. Eric Clapton n Mazur vi Crossroads © 2010 Ke Guitar Festival 3 MICHAEL Bolton DAVID FOSTER ERIC CLAPTON JEFF BECK Chaka KHAN The HITMAN Returns: David Foster & Friends Donna Summer Kenny Loggins SEAL VIENNA PHILHARMONIC Concerts SUMMER NIGHT CONCERT 2011 CARNEGIE HALL at 120 e K n Li erry t ee l Alan Gilbert s I r H VALERy Gergiev ©2010 C Emanuel Ax Audra McDONALD This fall, Conductor Emeritus Pierre Boulez conducts the re- nowned Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a stirring performance eznos of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. In Los Angeles, superstar tenor Juan b lson I Diego Flórez teams with maestro Gustavo Dudamel and the lA e Jerry ael W ic Phil for a concert of bel canto arias and overtures, as well as Latin ich M Maur American popular songs and orchestral dances; Eva Mendes hosts. On New year’s Day, everyone’s favorite fair lady Julie Andrews will ring in 2011 with the Vienna Philharmonic, as the orchestra performs its annual effervescent concert of Strauss Family waltzes ll I and polkas with guest conductor Franz Welser-Möst. Next May, e n ’ en o G GP will join the 120th anniversary celebrations at Carnegie Hall, ael ich oyd Ha where Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic will per- M b form George Gershwin’s An American in Paris; also featured will Yo-Yo MA Gil SHAHAM be Gil Shaham, Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax in a performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, as well as Audra McDonald sing- CelebracióN! ing favorites by Duke Ellington. In June, the Vienna Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel & the LA Phil returns with guest conductor Valery Gergiev for another Summer with Juan Diego Flórez Night concert in the spectacular gardens of Schönbrunn Palace. Pierre Boulez ton igh e l l hi or P V Gustavo Dudamel LA re t a/ cc e d Chicago Juan Diego FLórez Symphony Orchestra: Pierre Boulez les Ecc Conducts W ndre a Mahler’S 7TH JULIE ANDREWS y ph ffice O ra T G s ri oto u rmonic H O a T P H G N l FROM VIENNA: a hi tri a P us a osenber r ienn THE NEW yEAR’S © V odd t Franz WELSER-Möst CELEBRATION 2011 © Opera America’s favorite soprano, Renée Fleming, and Russia’s greatest living baritone, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, travel to St. Petersburg, Russia—the “Venice of the North”—to perform great songs, operatic arias and duets by Verdi, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov in the magnificent palaces of the Czars; Constantine Orbelian conducts the State Hermitage Orchestra. Superstar Ruggero Raimondi Placido Domingo looks back at his ex- traordinary career as one of the greatest I ol I and most popular tenors of his genera- Placido Domingo l ig tion, reflecting on his favorite roles in ano G I st Carmen, Tosca, Samson et Dalilah, I I Pagliacci, Otello, and more. And not : Cr OTOS content to rest on his laurels, Domingo PH takes on the challenge of a new career as a baritone in the title role RIGOLETTO of Rigoletto, shot on sumptuous loca- tions in Mantua; co-starring are Julia RIGOLETTO Novikova as Gilda, Vittorio Grigolo as From Mantua The Duke, and Ruggero Raimondi as Sparafucile; zubin Mehta conducts.
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