Great Performances · SEASON 50
Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2023
Episode 24 · 2023-08-25
- Comedy
- Documentary
- Drama
Episode overview
A beloved summer tradition, Great Performances presents the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s summer night concert from Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace Gardens. Focusing on musical works from French Romanticism to Impressionism, the orchestra is led for the first time by Metropolitan Opera music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and features Elīna Garanča as a soloist performing three arias from “Carmen,” “Sapho” and “Samson et Dalila.” Also performed for the first time is a composition by Lili Boulanger, the first female winner of the prestigious Prix de Rome for her work in 1913.
Season 50 episodes
1. Black Lucy and The Bard2022-09-16
2. Intimate Apparel2022-09-23
3. Great Performances at the Met: Lucia Di Lammermoor2022-10-02
4. Great Performances at the Met: Hamlet2022-11-06
5. NY Phil Reopening of David Geffen Hall2022-11-04
6. Josh Groban's Great Big Radio City Show2022-11-25
7. From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 20232023-01-01
8. Movies for Grownups® Awards 2023 with AARP The Magazine2023-02-17
9. The Magic of Spirituals2023-02-24
10. Remember This2023-03-13
11. Great Performances at the Met: The Hours2023-03-17
12. Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata2023-04-02
13. Now Hear This “Piazzolla’s History with Tango”2023-04-07
14. Now Hear This “Schumann - Genius and Madness”2023-04-14
15. Now Hear This “Andy Akiho Found (his) Sound”2023-04-21
16. Now Hear This “Albéniz - Portraits of Spain”2023-04-28
17. Great Performances at the Met: Fedora2023-05-07
18. Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best2023-05-12
19. Richard III2023-05-19
20. Great Performances at the Met: Medea2023-06-16
21. Great Performances at the Met: Lohengrin2023-07-09
22. Great Performances at the Met: Falstaff2023-08-06
23. Leonard Bernstein's Kaddish Symphony2023-08-21
24. Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 20232023-08-25
