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Great Performances at the Met: La Forza del Destino

Season 51 Episode 24

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s grand tale of love, deadly vendetta, and family strife with soprano Lise Davidsen starring as Leonora, one of the repertory’s most tormented heroines.

Aired: 07/06/24
Major series funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES is provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Jody and John Arnhold, the Abra Prentice Foundation, The Starr Foundation, The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, the Kate W. Cassidy Foundation, the Thea Petschek Iervolino Foundation, Seton J. Melvin, the Estate of Worthington Mayo-Smith, the Jack Lawrence Charitable Remainder Trust Worchell Lawrence, and Ellen and James S. Marcus.
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Dan (Jamie Parker) tries to connect to his wife (Caissie Levy).
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Cyro Delvizio and Scott Yoo discuss the Spanish repertoire that influenced Agustín Barrios.
Scott Yoo visits Juanjo Corbalán to learn about the folk music that inspired Agustín Barrios.
Discover Agustin Barrios’ rise from rural Paraguay to becoming a pioneering guitar composer.
Using an Ampico piano scroll, Scott Yoo watches Rachmaninoff play the piano.
Yevgeny Sudbin and Scott Yoo explain Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on Paganini."
Discover Rachmaninoff's reinvention as an American artist after losing everything in Russia.
The story behind "Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid."
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