Great Performances
tv show

668 total episodes
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51 seasons
First Aired January 28, 1971
Genres:
Overview
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.

Great Performances at the Met: Salome
Season 52 - Episode 24 - 3h 30m
Air Date
September 14, 2025
Overview
The first new production of the opera at the Met in 20 years, director Claus Guth reimagines the biblical tale through Oscar Wilde’s haunting play, setting it in an intricate Victorian world filled with symbolism and contrasts of darkness and light. Headlining the new staging is Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine Salome, who demands the head of Jochanaan.



