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The Best Episodes of Great Performances Season 45

Every episode of Great Performances Season 45 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Great Performances Season 45!

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The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Great Performances Season 45 Episode 1 - Havana Time Machine
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    #1 - Havana Time Machine

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    Great Performances and Latino Public Broadcasting’s VOCES present Havana Time Machine on Friday October 6 at 9PM on PBS. Singer Raul Malo of The Mavericks explores his Cuban heritage in this breakthrough performance documentary. Eliades Ochoa, Ivette Cepeda, Roberto Fonseca, and the Sweet Lizzy Project join the music star in an historical and musical journey through present-day Cuba.

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  2. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 2 - GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends® 2017
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    #2 - GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends® 2017

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    In collaboration with the Recording Academy®, Great Performances presents Grammy Salute To Music Legends 2017®, the second annual all-star concert offering a spotlight for the Academy’s 2017 Special Merit Awards recipients. The celebration, led by Paul Shaffer as musical director, was recorded at New York’s Beacon Theatre.

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  3. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 3 - She Loves Me
    8.4/10(22 votes)

    #3 - She Loves Me

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    The celebrated score features favorites such as “Vanilla Ice Cream,” “A Romantic Atmosphere,” “Dear Friend,” and “She Loves Me.” The musical is based on a play by Miklos Laszlo, whose well-known romantic story was the basis for the 1940 James Stewart film “The Shop Around the Corner,” the 1949 Judy Garland and Van Johnson musical “In the Good Old Summertime,” and the 1998 Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan film “You’ve Got Mail.”

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  4. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 4 - Noël Coward’s Present Laughter
    7.3/10(255 votes)

    #4 - Noël Coward’s Present Laughter

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    Noël Coward’s Present Laughter follows a self-obsessed actor in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Juggling his considerable talent, ego and libido, the theater’s favorite leading man suddenly finds himself caught between fawning ingénues, crazed playwrights, secret trysts and unexpected twists.

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  5. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 5 - In The Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams
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    #5 - In The Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams

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    In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams chronicles the personal stories of composer/lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of In the Heights in the months leading up to its 2008 opening night.

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  6. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 6 - Foo Fighters – Landmarks Live in Concert
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    #6 - Foo Fighters – Landmarks Live in Concert

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    Multi-Grammy-winning rock band Foo Fighters delivers an electrifying, historic performance at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, in the latest installment of Landmarks Live in Concert for GREAT PERFORMANCES. Captured this past July, Foo Fighters – Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special premieres nationwide Friday, November 10 at 10 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

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  7. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 7 - Indecent
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    #7 - Indecent

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    The Tony Award-winning play Indecent comes to Great Performances on Friday, November 17 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) as part of the fall Broadway’s Best lineup.

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  8. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 8 - Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
    6.9/10(21 votes)

    #8 - Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn

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    The festive Roundabout Theatre Company production of Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn - The Broadway Musical comes to PBS. The musical continues the Great Performances marathon within the Broadway’s Best lineup on PBS.

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  9. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 9 - The Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed Live
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    #9 - The Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed Live

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    The Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed Live from Great Performances premieres nationwide beginning November 25 on PBS (check local listings). Celebrating the 50th anniversary of their landmark album, The Moody Blues took to the road to perform the entire LP live.

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  10. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 10 - Hitman: David Foster & Friends
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    #10 - Hitman: David Foster & Friends

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    David Foster has generated some of the biggest hits in popular music, and collaborated with a veritable “Who’s Who” of superstars in a career spanning more than three decades. In this special encore presentation, Foster’s achievements, including 14 Grammy Awards, are celebrated in an all-star concert.

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  11. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 11 - From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2018
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    #11 - From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2018

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    Great Performances continues the cherished tradition of ringing in the new year with the Vienna Philharmonic with Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti. This year’s program welcomes new host Hugh Bonneville, best known as Robert, Earl of Grantham, in Downton Abbey. From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2018 premieres Monday, January 1, 2018 at 2:30PM EST(check local listings).

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  12. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 12 - Great Performances at the Met: Norma
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    #12 - Great Performances at the Met: Norma

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    Great Performances at the Met Season 12 begins with a new production of Bellini’s masterpiece about a woman scorned, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. Norma stars Sondra Radvanovsky as the titlular druid high priestess, opposite Joyce DiDonato and Joseph Calleja. Great Performances at the Met: Norma premieres nationwide Friday, January 26 at 9PM on PBS (check local listings).

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  13. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 13 - Nas Live From the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop
    5.8/10(74 votes)

    #13 - Nas Live From the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop

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    Two decades after the album’s critically acclaimed release, Nas teamed up with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, to stage a symphonic rendition of “Illmatic,” one of the most revered albums in hip-hop history. Great Performances — Nas Live From the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop premieres Friday, February 2 at 9PM on PBS (check local listings).

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  14. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 14 - Movies for Grownups® Awards with AARP the Magazine
    7.1/10(12 votes)

    #14 - Movies for Grownups® Awards with AARP the Magazine

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    This year’s 17th annual Movies for Grownups® Awards with AARP the Magazine will be broadcast for the first time ever. Co-produced by Great Performances, the awards premiere Friday, February 23 at 9PM on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/gperf and PBS apps. Award-winning film and stage actor Alan Cumming hosted the star-studded evening at the Beverly Wilshire, Beverly Hills on February 5.

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  15. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 15 - Great Performances at the Met: Exterminating Angel
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    #15 - Great Performances at the Met: Exterminating Angel

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    Season 12 of Great Performances at the Met continues on PBS on Sunday, March 25, with the American premiere of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel, a surreal fantasy about a dinner party from which the guests can’t escape. The Exterminating Angel was inspired by the classic Luis Buñuel film of the same name, and stars John Tomlinson and Alice Coote. Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham is the host.

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  16. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 16 - will.i.am and Friends Featuring the Black Eyed Peas
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    #16 - will.i.am and Friends Featuring the Black Eyed Peas

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    International superstar will.i.am performs from London’s historic Royal Albert Hall in a one-night-only concert event. The award-winning artist, writer and producer reunites with members of the Black Eyed Peas plus special guests Pia Mia, Eva Simons and Lydia Lucy. Will.i.am and Friends Featuring the Black Eyed - Landmarks Live in Concert premieres April 20 at 10PM on PBS (check local listings).

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  17. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 17 - Great Performances at the Met: L’Elisir d’Amore
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    #17 - Great Performances at the Met: L’Elisir d’Amore

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    Donizetti’s comedy charms with Pretty Yende as Adina and Matthew Polenzani as Nemorino. The poor country boy Nemorino wins the love of wealthy and beautiful Adina with the help of a magic elixir. Susanna Phillips hosts.

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  18. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 18 - Great Performances at the Met: La Boheme
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    #18 - Great Performances at the Met: La Boheme

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    See the classic Puccini opera starring Sonya Yoncheva as Mimì and Michael Fabiano as Rodolfo. In 1830s Paris, the budding romances of two couples are tested by jealousy, poverty and illness. Marco Armiliato conducts.

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  19. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 19 - The Opera House
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    #19 - The Opera House

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    Explore the rich history of the Met Opera’s Lincoln Center home and the cultural life of 1950s-60s New York City. Features famed soprano Leontyne Price, the Met’s general manager Rudolf Bing, city planner Robert Moses and architect Wallace Harrison.

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  20. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 20 - Great Performances at the Met: Tosca
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    #20 - Great Performances at the Met: Tosca

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    Sonya Yoncheva and Vittorio Grigolo sing Tosca and Cavaradossi’s Act I duet in the final dress rehearsal.

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  21. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 21 - Ellis Island: The Dream of America with Pacific Symphony
    8.0/10(14 votes)

    #21 - Ellis Island: The Dream of America with Pacific Symphony

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    THIRTEEN’s Great Performances and Pacific Symphony, led by music director Carl St.Clair, pay tribute to America’s history with a performance of composer Peter Boyer’s “Ellis Island: The Dream of America,” a Grammy-nominated contemporary classical work celebrating the historic American immigrant experience.

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  22. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 22 - Great Performances at the Met: Semiramide
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    #22 - Great Performances at the Met: Semiramide

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    Experience Rossini’s masterpiece starring Angela Meade as Queen Semiramide and Elizabeth DeShong as Arsace, the Queen’s fiancé and her own son. Javier Camarena, Ildar Abdrazakov and Ryan Speedo Green complete the cast. Maurizio Benini conducts.

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  23. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 23 - Great Performances at the Met: Così fan tutte
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    #23 - Great Performances at the Met: Così fan tutte

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    Enjoy a new production of Mozart’s comedy of the sexes set in 1950s Coney Island. Stars Kelli O’Hara, Amanda Majeski, Serena Malfi, Ben Bliss, Adam Plachetka and Christopher Maltman. David Robertson conducts.

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  24. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 24 - Chicago Voices
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    #24 - Chicago Voices

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    Celebrate Chicago’s vibrant music culture with performances by Renée Fleming, Broadway’s Jessie Mueller, rap artist Lupe Fiasco, folk legend John Prine, pop and gospel singer Michelle Williams and more.

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  25. Great Performances Season 45 Episode 25 - Great Performances at the Met: Luisa Miller
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    #25 - Great Performances at the Met: Luisa Miller

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    Experience Verdi’s heart-wrenching opera with Plácido Domingo as Miller, and Sonya Yoncheva in the title role opposite tenor Piotr Beczała as Rodolfo. Conducted by Bertrand de Billy. Anthony Roth Costanzo hosts.

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Season 45 Ratings Summary

"Havana Time Machine" is the best rated episode of "Great Performances" season 45. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/6/2017. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends® 2017".