(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Folk-pop singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright brings his “Best of” tour to the Mahaiwe on Saturday, May 9, 2015, at 8pm. Wainwright is widely regarded as one of the best songwriters of his generation by his fellow musicians, critics, and audiences alike, and in addition to seven albums of his own songs and…
(ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.) – The production of Oresteia, composed by Igor Stravinsky’s compatriot Sergey Taneyev, at the Bard SummerScape festival, from July 26, 2013, through August 4, marks the first time this towering work will have been staged in its entirety outside Russia. Boasting a predominantly Russian cast, Bard’s new and original production comes courtesy of…
(ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.) – From a vision of the Holy Grail to the longing for and redemption of love, Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra will perform pieces of Richard Wagner’s most famous operatic works at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, the final concert of the 2012–13 season,…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Pearl, a modern retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s timeless novel The Scarlet Letter, told from the viewpoint of the daughter of Hester Prynne, in operatic form and with a libretto by feminist psychologist Carol Gilligan, will get its first workshop production in the Tina Packer Playhouse at Shakespeare & Company on Monday, August…
(ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.) – The life and times of Belle E?poque French composer Camille Saint-Saens will be examined, scrutinized, celebrated and revived in the ninth annual Bard SummerScape festival, a seven week arts festival on the campus of Bard College, which once again features a sumptuous tapestry of music, opera, theater, dance, film, and cabaret, and…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – MASS MoCA will present a work-in-progress showing of Paola Prestini’s new multimedia opera Oceanic Verses in the Hunter Center on Friday, May 18, 2012, at 8 p.m. Set against the backdrop of the Mediterranean Sea, Oceanic Verses is about people who flee and people who stay, people who sail to escape…
(WILLIAMSTOWN and GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Verdi’s sweeping romantic opera Ernani will be screened at The Clark and the Mahaiwe on Saturday, February 25, 2012, at 1p.m., Live in HD from the Metropolitan Opera. (There will be an encore screening at the Mahaiwe on Wednesday, March 7, at 1 p.m. at the Mahaiwe.) In Ernani,…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Artists from the classical music and dance avant-garde will join forces when, after a 10-day residency, contemporary cellist Maya Beiser, the founding cellist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, teams with radical choreographer Karole Armitage to perform the psychological cello opera Elsewhere on Saturday, December 10, 2011, at 8 p.m.…
(CAMBRIDGE, N.Y.) — In its fourth summer season, Hubbard Hall Opera Theater (HHOT) presents Gaetano Donizetti’s classic comic opera, Don Pasquale, in a new production by Heidi Lauren Duke, reconceived and relocated to the glamorous early Hollywood, Art Deco world of Buster Keaton and Mae West. Performances, running August 12, 13, and 18 at 8…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF), which the New York Times just called “consistently imaginative,” returns to the Berkshires with two opera productions at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center from Friday, June 24 through Monday, June 27. The four performances will include the fully-staged North American premiere production of Steffani’s Niobe,…
