34 events found.
Opera & Classical
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Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA
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Berkshire Opera Festival: The Tart with a Heart – La Traviata: Myth or Documentary?
Indigo Room 20 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesPlease join Berkshire Opera Festival and dramaturg Cori Ellison for “The Tart with a Heart: Traviata as Documentary and Myth,” a free and informative talk about the foundations of Verdi’s famous opera.
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Berkshire Opera Festival: La Traviata
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MASet amid the splendor of Parisian nightlife, Giuseppe Verdi’s timeless tale of love and sacrifice has become one of the most beloved operas of all time.
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Berkshire Opera Festival: La Traviata
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MASet amid the splendor of Parisian nightlife, Giuseppe Verdi’s timeless tale of love and sacrifice has become one of the most beloved operas of all time.
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Berkshire Opera Festival: La Traviata
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MASet amid the splendor of Parisian nightlife, Giuseppe Verdi’s timeless tale of love and sacrifice has become one of the most beloved operas of all time.
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Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Bellini’s La Sonnambula
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAScott Eyerly will offer a free opera talk via Zoom the Thursday prior to the Metropolitan Opera’s broadcast the following weekend.
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Met Opera Live in HD: Bellini’s La Sonnambula
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MANadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found.
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Close Encounters With Music: “The Golem” – A Vision in Sound and Cinema with the Avalon String Quartet
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAMonsters and magic spells! A masterwork of German expressionist cinema meets a live, klezmer-infused score in a vibrant feast for the eyes and ears.
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Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Puccini’s La Bohème
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAScott Eyerly will offer a free opera talk via Zoom the Thursday prior to the Metropolitan Opera’s broadcast the following weekend.
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Met Opera Live in HD: Puccini’s La Bohème
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAWith its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking.
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Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Strauss’s Arabella
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAScott Eyerly will offer a free opera talk via Zoom the Thursday prior to the Metropolitan Opera’s broadcast the following weekend.
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Met Opera Live in HD: Strauss’s Arabella
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAStrauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times).
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Close Encounters With Music: Vivace Chamber Orchestra – Mozart, Mendelssohn, Britten, Bruch
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAThe Vivace players return! This New York-based chamber music collective shares the aim of performing the greatest works in the repertoire at the highest level.
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Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Giordano’s Andrea Chénier
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAScott Eyerly will offer a free opera talk via Zoom the Thursday prior to the Metropolitan Opera’s broadcast the following weekend.
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Met Opera Live in HD: Giordano’s Andrea Chénier
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAGiordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution.
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Berkshire Bach Society presents: Bach at New Year’s – The Six ‘Brandenburg’ Concertos
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAThe Berkshire Bach Society presents Bach at New Year’s: The Six 'Brandenburg Concertos', an event that has been a holiday tradition since 1993.
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Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Bellini’s I Puritani
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAScott Eyerly will offer a free opera talk via Zoom the Thursday prior to the Metropolitan Opera’s broadcast the following weekend.
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Met Opera Live in HD: Bellini’s I Puritani
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAFor gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals.
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Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Kavalier & Clay
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAScott Eyerly will offer a free opera talk via Zoom the Thursday prior to the Metropolitan Opera’s broadcast the following weekend.
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Met Opera Live in HD: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MADue to popular demand, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, recorded live earlier this season, will be presented as a special screening.
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Close Encounters With Music: Mostly Amadeus—Meet the Mozarts!
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAThe supernatural perfection of Mozart’s music was produced by a man many considered a “quill in divine hands.”
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Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Wagner’s Tristan Und Isolde
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAScott Eyerly will offer a free opera talk via Zoom the Thursday prior to the Metropolitan Opera’s broadcast the following weekend.
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Met Opera Live in HD: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAAfter years of anticipation, the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death.
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BOF’s Annual FREE Family Concert: Once Upon an Opera
Indigo Room 20 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesBack by popular demand! Berkshire Opera Festival’s Free Family Concert returns with a high-energy mix of opera’s best-loved classics, packed with soaring melodies you’ll instantly recognize.
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Close Encounters With Music: “On the Wings of Song”—Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Mendelssohn Piano Trio
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MARobert Schumann’s setting of Heinrich Heine’s song cycle Dichterliebe—A Poet’s Love—is spellbinding.
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Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAScott Eyerly will offer a free opera talk via Zoom the Thursday prior to the Metropolitan Opera’s broadcast the following weekend.
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Met Opera Live in HD: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAFollowing her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin.
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Close Encounters With Music: Vivace Baroque Orchestra: The Four Seasons—Antonio Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAVivaldi’s iconic Four Seasons (with his accompanying sonnets) and Piazzolla’s sultry Four Seasons of Buenos Airesmeet in a program where time, place, and style intertwine.
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Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAScott Eyerly will offer a free opera talk via Zoom the Thursday prior to the Metropolitan Opera’s broadcast the following weekend.
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Met Opera Live in HD: Gabriela Lena Frank’s Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAOn May 30, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz.
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Close Encounters With Music: Romance of the Romani!—Ravel, Bartók, Liszt, Haydn, and Brahms Piano Quartet
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAThe season closes with the irresistible fire and passion of music shaped by Romani traditions, which left an indelible mark on European composers.
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Berkshire Opera Festival: Lucia di Lammermoor
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MALucia di Lammermoor reigns as the crown jewel of bel canto opera! Set amid the foggy moors and ancient castles of Scotland, Donizetti’s masterpiece tells the tragic story of Lucia, whose forbidden love for her family’s sworn enemy drives her to the brink of madness.
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Berkshire Opera Festival: Lucia di Lammermoor
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MALucia di Lammermoor reigns as the crown jewel of bel canto opera! Set amid the foggy moors and ancient castles of Scotland, Donizetti’s masterpiece tells the tragic story of Lucia, whose forbidden love for her family’s sworn enemy drives her to the brink of madness.
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Berkshire Opera Festival: Lucia di Lammermoor
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MALucia di Lammermoor reigns as the crown jewel of bel canto opera! Set amid the foggy moors and ancient castles of Scotland, Donizetti’s masterpiece tells the tragic story of Lucia, whose forbidden love for her family’s sworn enemy drives her to the brink of madness.