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Great Performances
Season 36 · Episode 5
King Lear
3.5March 25, 2009
2009 Emmy Nominee Ian McKellen recreates his recent stage performance of Shakespeare's tragic monarch in a special television adaptation. Directed by Trevor Nunn, the telecast includes nearly all the original cast members of the sold-out Royal Shakespeare Company production that premiered in Stratford-Upon-Avon in April 2007.
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- Episode 3Domingo, Netrebko & Villazón: Three Stars in Vienna
- Episode 4Cyrano de Bergerac
- Episode 5King Lear
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