Close Encounters With Music: “On the Wings of Song”—Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Mendelssohn Piano Trio
Robert Schumann’s setting of Heinrich Heine’s song cycle Dichterliebe—A Poet’s Love—is spellbinding.
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Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA
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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.