• Close Encounters With Music: Virtue and Virtuosity

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    The 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.

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  • Close Encounters With Music: Nocturne– Night and Dreams

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Nuances of the night are explored in this multi-faceted program. The night’s seductive, mysterious potion-like allure has fascinated artists throughout the ages.

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  • Met Opera Live in HD: Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Sung 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.

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  • Met Opera Live in HD: Verdi’s Nabucco

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Ancient Babylon comes to life in a classic Met staging of biblical proportions.

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  • Met Opera Live in HD: Bizet’s Carmen

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Acclaimed 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.

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  • Met Opera Live in HD: Verdi’s La Forza Del Destino

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Yannick 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.

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  • Met Opera Live in HD: Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Two singers at the height of their powers—soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor Benjamin Bernheim—come together as the star-crossed lovers in Gounod’s Shakespeare adaptation, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct one of the repertoire’s most romantic scores.

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  • Met Opera Live in HD: Puccini’s La Rondine

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Puccini’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.

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  • Met Opera Live in HD: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    In her Met debut, Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the trusting geisha at the heart of Puccini’s tragedy.

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  • Close Encounters With Music: Café Vienna– “Nervous Splendor”

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    The 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.

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  • Close Encounters With Music: Gala Concert: Great Piano Quintets

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Dvořák’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.

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  • Berkshire Opera Festival – Free Faust Preview

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Please join Berkshire Opera Festival for a presentation and discussion of BOF's upcoming production of Gounod's Faust.

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  • Met Opera Live in HD: Rossini’s La Cenerentola

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Rossini’s charming take on the Cinderella story returns to cinemas, starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and tenor Juan Diego Flórez in Cesare Lievi’s whimsical production. Fabio Luisi conducts.

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  • Met Opera Live in HD: Puccini’s Turandot

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    In this 2016 Met performance of Puccini’s extravagant masterpiece, soprano Nina Stemme and tenor Marco Berti star in a larger-than-life staging from legendary director Franco Zeffirelli. Paolo Carignani conducts.

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  • Met Opera Live in HD: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    In an unforgettable Met performance from 2020, one of America’s greatest operas returns, featuring soprano Angel Blue and bass-baritone Eric Owens alongside a phenomenal ensemble cast. David Robertson conducts.

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  • Met Opera Live in HD: Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Offenbach’s fantastical opera kicks off the Metropolitan Opera’s season of Live in HD performance transmissions, starring French tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet.

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  • Met Opera Live in HD: Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded premieres at the Metropolitan Opera, wrestling with often-overlooked issues created by 21st-century warmaking: the ethical conflicts created by the use of modern military technology and the psychological and emotional toll supposedly safe remote technology takes on our servicepersons.

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  • Close Encounters With Music: Drama & Melodrama – The Schumanns

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    The ever-fascinating and intimate triangle—Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms—will be brought to new light with seldom-heard works that highlight the musical cross-references and spiritual bond that united them.

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