Met Opera Live in HD: Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAJake Heggie’s powerful work has its highly anticipated Met premiere in a new production by Ivo van Hove.
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Opera & Classical
Close Encounters With Music: Virtue and Virtuosity
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAThe program touches on some of the most fundamental questions about the nature of art and culminates with the emotionally compelling and ineffably beautiful Brahms Piano Trio Op. 8.
Met Opera Live in HD: Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAAnthony Davis’s groundbreaking opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at long last.
Close Encounters With Music: Nocturne– Night and Dreams
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MANuances of the night are explored in this multi-faceted program.
Met Opera Live in HD: Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MASung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera focuses on an opera diva, Florencia Grimaldi, who returns to her native Brazil to perform and to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle.
Met Opera Live in HD: Verdi’s Nabucco
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAAncient Babylon comes to life in a classic Met staging of biblical proportions.
Met Opera Live in HD: Bizet’s Carmen
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAAcclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story of deadly passion with a staging that moves the action to the present day, amid a band of human traffickers.
Met Opera Live in HD: Verdi’s La Forza Del Destino
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAYannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, with stellar soprano Lise Davidsen, following a string of recent Met triumphs, in her role debut as the noble Leonora.
Close Encounters With Music: Celtic Baroque Band Makaris—A Bach Family Concert with an Irish Twist
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAIn his dance suites, J. S. Bach ventures into Spanish sarabandes, French bourrées and British gigues.
Met Opera Live in HD: Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAJake Heggie’s powerful work has its highly anticipated Met premiere in a new production by Ivo van Hove.
Close Encounters With Music: Something Borrowed, Something Blue– Cross- Cultural Synergy!
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAThe Romans appropriated the entirety of classical Greek culture, and the Renaissance rediscovered and revitalized it.
Met Opera Live in HD: Puccini’s La Rondine
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAPuccini’s bittersweet love story makes a rare Met appearance, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the sophisticated French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman in his company debut as Ruggero, an idealistic young man who offers her an alternative to her life of excess.
Met Opera Live in HD: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAIn her Met debut, Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the trusting geisha at the heart of Puccini’s tragedy.
Close Encounters With Music: Café Vienna– “Nervous Splendor”
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAThe imperial “City of Song” has played an essential role as a leading European cultural center, hosting major personalities in the development of music, as well as literature, painting, psychiatry and intellectual thought, from the 16th to 20th centuries.
Close Encounters With Music: Gala Concert: Great Piano Quintets
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MADvořák’s sublime Piano Quintet in A Major occupies a lofty place in the chamber music canon, at the same elevation as Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34.