2010-11 Season Preview

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As we enter the closing months of 2010 and turn the corner into

the “teen years” of the new millennium, a sense of reflection

and change is in the air. And this feeling of the old transforming

into the new is a recurring theme in GREAT PERFORMANCES ’s

upcoming season.

Launching our season is a riveting new film adaptation of Macbeth,

a daring contemporary adaptation of the Shakespeare classic starring

Sir Patrick Stewart. From Broadway, a generational cross-section of

Broadway’s best gather to celebrate Stephen Sondheim’s 80th

birthday. In classical music, four concerts embrace innovation

and heritage: Pierre Boulez and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

in a performance of Mahler’s 7th, the LA Phil’s Celebración! with

Gustavo Dudamel and Juan Diego Flórez, Carnegie Hall’s 120th

anniversary concert, and the Vienna Philharmonic’s traditional New

Year’s Day concert hosted by Julie Andrews.

In dance, Miami City Ballet makes their long awaited Dance in

America debut. Opera fans won’t want to miss the on-location

production of Rigoletto from Mantua, as well as the new season of

GREAT PERFORMANCES at The Met. And the legendary Placido

Domingo takes a look back at his extraordinary career. In popular

music, GP has front row seats to show-stopping concerts with Billy

Joel, Eric Clapton, Harry Connick, Jr., and “Hitman” David Foster.

On the following pages you’ll find more details on a dynamic

mix of the best in the performing arts — all courtesy of public

television stations, and viewers like you.

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GREAT PERFORMANCES is produced for PBS by THIRTEEN for WNET.ORG,and is funded byThe National Endowment for the Arts,Vivian Milstein,The Irene Diamond Fund,The Starr Foundation,The Corporation for Public Broadcasting,public television viewers, and PBS.

Major series funding is also provided byThe Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund,Joseph A. Wilson,the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust,and Jody and John Arnhold.

Corporate support for the Vienna Philharmonic telecasts is provided by Rolex.Additional support provided by Vera von Kuffner Eberstadt.

Corporate support for GREAT PERFORMANCES at the Met is provided by Toll Brothers.

The show goes on at GREAT PERFORMANCES online.To learn more, visit wnet.org or pbs.org,

where you can enjoy full programs, programexcerpts, interviews, blogs, and other activities taking you behind the scenes and center stage.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010MACBETH(also available at pbs.org/gperf)

Wednesday, October 27, 2010CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: PIERRE BOulEz CONDuCTS MAHlER’S 7TH

Wednesday, November 24, 2010SONDHEIM! THE BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Wednesday, December 29, 2010CElEBRACIóN!Gustavo Dudamel & the lA Phil with Juan Diego Flórez

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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,

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.

THE HITMAN RETURNS: David Foster & Friends

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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,

Natalie Cole, lara Fabian, Chaka Khan, Kenny loggins, Seal, Ruben Studdard, Donna

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.

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Concerts VIENNA PHILHARMONIC SUMMER NIGHT CONCERT 2011

This fall, Conductor Emeritus Pierre Boulez conducts the re-

nowned Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a stirring performance

of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. In Los Angeles, superstar tenor Juan

Diego Flórez teams with maestro Gustavo Dudamel and the lA

Phil for a concert of bel canto arias and overtures, as well as Latin

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

and polkas with guest conductor Franz Welser-Möst. Next May,

GP will join the 120th anniversary celebrations at Carnegie Hall,

where Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic will per-

form George Gershwin’s An American in Paris; also featured will

be Gil Shaham, Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax in a performance of

Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, as well as Audra McDonald sing-

ing favorites by Duke Ellington. In June, the Vienna Philharmonic

returns with guest conductor Valery Gergiev for another Summer

Night concert in the spectacular gardens of Schönbrunn Palace.

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America’s favorite soprano, Renée

Fleming, and Russia’s greatest living

baritone, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, travel

to St. Petersburg, Russia—the “Venice

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operatic arias and duets by Verdi,

Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov in

the magnificent palaces of the Czars;

Constantine Orbelian conducts the

State Hermitage Orchestra. Superstar

Placido Domingo looks back at his ex-

traordinary career as one of the greatest

and most popular tenors of his genera-

tion, reflecting on his favorite roles in

Carmen, Tosca, Samson et Dalilah,

I Pagliacci, Otello, and more. And not

content to rest on his laurels, Domingo

takes on the challenge of a new

career as a baritone in the title role

of Rigoletto, shot on sumptuous loca-

tions in Mantua; co-starring are Julia

Novikova as Gilda, Vittorio Grigolo as

The Duke, and Ruggero Raimondi as

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The show goes on at GREAT PERFORMANCES online.To learn more, visit wnet.org or pbs.org,

where you can enjoy full programs, programexcerpts, interviews, blogs, and other activities taking you behind the scenes and center stage.