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Wagner’s Ring Cycle

The complete Ring Cycle airs Monday, September 10 - Friday, September 14, 2012 beginning at 8pm each night on <strong>KCPT2</strong>.

Robert Lepage’s acclaimed new production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen is preceded by the broadcast of award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke’s documentary “Wagner’s Dream,” which chronicles the backstage story of the creation of this ambitious new staging of the cycle. This is the third time a complete Ring cycle has aired on PBS. In 1983, GREAT PERFORMANCES aired Patrice Chereau’s production of the Ring conducted by Pierre Boulez from the Bayreuth Festival, and in 1990, LIVE FROM THE MET (the precursor of GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET) presented Otto Schenk’s Metropolitan Opera production, conducted by James Levine.

“Wagner’s Dream” Monday, September 10, 2012, 8pm

“Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold)” Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 8pm

“Die Walkure (The Valkyrie)” Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 8pm

“Seigfried” Thursday, September 13, 2012, 8pm

“Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods)” Friday, September 14, 2012, 8pm

The stakes could not be higher as visionary director Robert Lepage, several of the world’s greatest operatic artists and the Metropolitan Opera tackle Wagner’s Ring cycle. An intimate look at the enormous theatrical and musical challenges of staging opera’s most monumental work, Susan Froemke’s documentary chronicles the quest to fulfill Wagner’s dream of a perfect Ring.

The complete Ring Cycle airs Monday, September 10 – Friday, September 14, 2012 beginning at 8pm each night on KCPT2.

Watch Sneak Peek: Wagner’s Dream on PBS. See more from Great Performances.

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Broadway or Bust – New 3-Part Series

Follow 60 young performers as they’re coached by Broadway talent and prepare solos for competition. Watch Sundays, September 9-23, 2012 at 7pm.

PBS is bound for Broadway with a primetime documentary series that tracks the real-life stories of America’s top high school musical performers, vying in the ultimate competition to find the nation’s best young theater stars. Part competition, part performance and part non-fiction drama, the event starts in regional theatrical programs, where judges around the country select the best performers in the country. The 60 finalists then descend on Broadway, where they plunge into the eye of the theatrical storm for one intense week of rehearsals, coaching, mentoring and cut-throat competition. After an intense final audition, finalists are selected, and these “best of the best” American high school performers take part in the grand finale of the week, the competition for The National High School Musical Theatre Awards (a.k.a. The Jimmy Awards), a one night, star-studded event held at Minskoff Theatre in June 2012. That night, the judges select and anoint the nation’s leading male and female high school musical theatre performers. Follow the build-up and the heartbreak, the drama and disappointment of BROADWAY OR BUST on PBS.

In the first episode follow 60 young performers as they’re coached by Broadway talent and prepare solos for competition.

Watch Sundays, September 9 – 23, 2012 at 7pm.

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Sister Wendy at the Norton Simon Museum of Art

Watch Wednesday, September 5 at 8pm and Saturday, September 8, 2012, 10pm on <strong>KCPT2</strong>.

Sister Wendy Beckett, the world-famous “art nun,” offers her unique and personal guide to one of the most extraordinary collections of Old Master, Impressionist, Modern and Asian art in the United States. Sister Wendy explores the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif., which bears the hallmark of one private collector, its founder, Norton Simon. In her trademark manner, she offers her own inimitable reflections on some of the collection’s most famous works and some of its lesser-known gems. She points out her personal favorites and reflects on Simon’s choices as well.

Watch Wednesday, September 5 at 8pm and Saturday, September 8, 2012, 10pm on KCPT2.

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Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night 2012

Join Gustavo Dudamel and the Vienna Philharmonic in the magnificent gardens of Schönbrunn Palace. Watch Friday, August 31, 2012 at 9pm.

Join distinguished conductor Gustavo Dudamel as he leads the fourth annual Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night 2012 concert and the renowned Vienna Philharmonic under the stars in the magnificent gardens of Austria’s Imperial Schönbrunn Palace. Vienna Ballet dancers join the orchestra in celebration of the world of dance in music by Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Richard Strauss. The concert also features performances of Debussy’s “La Mer” and the Austrian favorite “Wiener Blut” (“Viennese Blood”) by waltz king Johann Strauss.

Watch Friday, August 31, 2012 at 9pm.

Watch Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night 2012 Preview on PBS. See more from Great Performances.

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