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  • October 2025

  • Thu 16
    Scott Eyerly in the midst of falling mulit-colored pages of sheet music

    Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Bellini’s La Sonnambula

    Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 5:30 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Scott 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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  • Sun 19
    Still shot of singers performing a scene from "La Sonnambula"

    Met Opera Live in HD: Bellini’s La Sonnambula

    Sunday, October 19, 2025 at 1:00 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Nadine 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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  • November 2025

  • Sun 2
    A graphic of a little girl handing a man an apple

    Close Encounters With Music: “The Golem” – A Vision in Sound and Cinema with the Avalon String Quartet

    Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 4:00 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Monsters 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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  • Thu 6
    Scott Eyerly in the midst of falling mulit-colored pages of sheet music

    Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Puccini’s La Bohème

    Thursday, November 6, 2025 at 5:30 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Scott 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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  • Sun 9
    Still shot from the production showing large groups of people crowding Paris streets

    Met Opera Live in HD: Puccini’s La Bohème

    Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 1:00 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking.

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  • Thu 20
    Scott Eyerly in the midst of falling mulit-colored pages of sheet music

    Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Strauss’s Arabella

    Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 5:30 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Scott 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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  • Sat 22
    A group of dancers in a ballroom

    Met Opera Live in HD: Strauss’s Arabella

    Saturday, November 22, 2025 at 1:00 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Strauss’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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  • December 2025

  • Sun 7
    An animated picture of orchestral musicians

    Close Encounters With Music: Vivace Chamber Orchestra – Mozart, Mendelssohn, Britten, Bruch

    Sunday, December 7, 2025 at 4:00 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    The 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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  • Thu 11
    Scott Eyerly in the midst of falling mulit-colored pages of sheet music

    Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Giordano’s Andrea Chénier

    Thursday, December 11, 2025 at 5:30 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Scott 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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  • Sat 13
    A large crowd of people and soldiers stand against buildings facade

    Met Opera Live in HD: Giordano’s Andrea Chénier

    Saturday, December 13, 2025 at 1:00 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Giordano’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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  • Wed 31
    Classical musicians at a concert

    Berkshire Bach Society presents: Bach at New Year’s – The Six ‘Brandenburg’ Concertos

    Wednesday, December 31, 2025 at 6:00 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    The 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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  • January 2026

  • Thu 8
    Scott Eyerly in the midst of falling mulit-colored pages of sheet music

    Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Bellini’s I Puritani

    Thursday, January 8 at 5:30 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Scott 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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  • Sun 11
    An opera stage set forming a church interior, with three figures standing within

    Met Opera Live in HD: Bellini’s I Puritani

    Sunday, January 11 at 1:00 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals.

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  • Thu 22
    Scott Eyerly

    Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Kavalier & Clay

    Thursday, January 22 at 5:30 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Scott 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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  • Sat 24
    Two actors on stage with a rendering of the Statue of Liberty behind them in the background

    Met Opera Live in HD: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

    Saturday, January 24 at 1:00 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Due 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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  • March 2026

  • Sun 15
    Mozart

    Close Encounters With Music: Mostly Amadeus—Meet the Mozarts!

    Sunday, March 15 at 4:00 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    The supernatural perfection of Mozart’s music was produced by a man many considered a “quill in divine hands.”

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  • Thu 19
    Scott Eyerly in the midst of falling mulit-colored pages of sheet music

    Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Wagner’s Tristan Und Isolde

    Thursday, March 19 at 5:30 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Scott 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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  • Sun 22
    Two statues stand against a vibrant pink background

    Met Opera Live in HD: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde

    Sunday, March 22 at 12:00 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    After 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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  • April 2026

  • Sun 12
    A man in an elegant hat and old fashioned opera outfit, speaking with students

    BOF’s Annual FREE Family Concert: Once Upon an Opera

    Sunday, April 12 at 2:00 pm
    Indigo Room 20 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United States

    Back 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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  • Sun 19
    A woman holding a violin

    Close Encounters With Music: “On the Wings of Song”—Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Mendelssohn Piano Trio

    Sunday, April 19 at 4:00 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Robert Schumann’s setting of Heinrich Heine’s song cycle Dichterliebe—A Poet’s Love—is spellbinding.

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  • Thu 30
    Scott Eyerly in the midst of falling mulit-colored pages of sheet music

    Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin

    Thursday, April 30 at 5:30 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Scott 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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  • May 2026

  • Sat 2
    A group of men throwing a woman up into the air

    Met Opera Live in HD: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin

    Saturday, May 2 at 1:00 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Following 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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  • Sun 17
    An illustration of a classical musician and a sepia-toned scenic backdrop

    Close Encounters With Music: Vivace Baroque Orchestra: The Four Seasons—Antonio Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla

    Sunday, May 17 at 4:00 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Vivaldi’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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  • June 2026

  • Thu 4
    Scott Eyerly in the midst of falling mulit-colored pages of sheet music

    Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

    Thursday, June 4 at 5:30 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Scott 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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  • Sun 7
    An empty stage lit in blue and red, with a tree sculpture floating in the center

    Met Opera Live in HD: Gabriela Lena Frank’s Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

    Sunday, June 7 at 1:00 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    On 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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  • Sun 14
    A pink, turquoise, black, and purple floral print pattern

    Close Encounters With Music: Romance of the Romani!—Ravel, Bartók, Liszt, Haydn, and Brahms Piano Quartet

    Sunday, June 14 at 4:00 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    The 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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  • August 2026

  • Sat 22
    Artwork for Berkshire Opera Festival's Lucia di Lammermoor

    Berkshire Opera Festival: Lucia di Lammermoor

    Saturday, August 22 at 1:00 pm - 3:45 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Lucia 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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  • Tue 25
    Artwork for Berkshire Opera Festival's Lucia di Lammermoor

    Berkshire Opera Festival: Lucia di Lammermoor

    Tuesday, August 25 at 7:30 pm - 10:15 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Lucia 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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  • Fri 28
    Artwork for Berkshire Opera Festival's Lucia di Lammermoor

    Berkshire Opera Festival: Lucia di Lammermoor

    Friday, August 28 at 7:30 pm - 10:15 pm
    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Lucia 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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