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  • Jacques Lee Wood

    Aston Magna: The String Trios of Mozart

    Virtual Event

    Free! A full-fledged, sonata-like work with two extra movements: a second minuet, and a very elaborate variations movement.

  • Berkshire Opera Festival: Verdi’s Falstaff

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

    Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) returns to the Mahaiwe stage in 2021 with none other than one of the greatest comedic operas ever composed, Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff. 

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  • Berkshire Opera Festival: Verdi’s Falstaff

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

    Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) returns to the Mahaiwe stage in 2021 with none other than one of the greatest comedic operas ever composed, Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff. 

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  • Berkshire Opera Festival: Verdi’s Falstaff

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

    Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) returns to the Mahaiwe stage in 2021 with none other than one of the greatest comedic operas ever composed, Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff. 

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  • Boris Godunov

    Met Opera Live in HD: Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov

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

    Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his overwhelming portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition and crippling paranoia, kicking off the Live in HD season on October 9, 2021.

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  • Fire Shut Up In My Bones

    Met Opera Live in HD: Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones

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

    Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Grammy Award–winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard’s adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s moving memoir, which The New York Times praised after its 2019 world premiere at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as “bold and affecting” and “subtly powerful.”

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  • Eurydice

    Met Opera Live in HD: Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice

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

    The ancient Greek myth of Orpheus, who attempts to harness the power of music to rescue his beloved Eurydice from the underworld, has inspired composers since opera’s earliest days.

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  • Cinderella

    Met Opera Live in HD: Massenet’s Cinderella

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

    In this New Year’s Day performance, Laurent Pelly’s storybook staging of Massenet’s Cendrillon, a hit of the 2017–18 season, is presented with an all-new English translation in an abridged 90-minute adaptation, with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as its rags-to-riches princess.

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  • Rigoletto

    Met Opera Live in HD: Verdi’s Rigoletto

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

    Bartlett Sher’s bold new take on Verdi’s timeless tragedy arrives in cinemas on January 29.

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  • Rigoletto

    Met Opera in HD: Verdi’s Rigoletto (Encore)

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

    Encore screening of Bartlett Sher’s bold new take on Verdi’s timeless tragedy!

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  • Ariadne auf Naxos

    Met Opera Live in HD: Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos

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

    The exhilarating soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Live in HD debut in one of her signature roles, the mythological Greek heroine of Strauss’s enchanting masterpiece.

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  • Don Carlos

    Met Opera Live in HD: Verdi’s Don Carlos

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

    For the first time in company history, the Met presents the original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doomed love among royalty, set against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition.

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  • Close Encounters With Music

    Close Encounters With Music: Skylark A Cappella Vocalists—Hidden Symbols, Secret Codes

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

    What might happen if Robert Langdon, acclaimed professor of Symbology at Harvard University (and fictional hero of Dan Brown’s best-selling novels, including The Da Vinci Code), were enlisted to explore hidden symbols, secret codes, and long-forgotten historical connections buried in manuscripts of choral music over the centuries?

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  • Turandot

    Met Opera Live in HD: Puccini’s Turandot

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

    Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska stars in the title role of the legendary cold-hearted princess.

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  • Lucia di Lammermoor

    Met Opera Live in HD: Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor

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

    On May 21, soprano Nadine Sierra takes on one of the repertory’s most formidable and storied roles, the haunted heroine of Lucia di Lammermoor, in an electrifying new staging by in-demand Australian theater and film director Simon Stone, conducted by Riccardo Frizza.

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  • Close Encounters With Music

    Close Encounters With Music: Reeds and Strings

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

    First oboist of the New York Philharmonic Liang Wang leads the way from Mozart’s Oboe Quartet to Cimarosa’s Oboe Concerto and Britten’s Metamorphosis after Ovid, that will be accompanied by historic classical paintings of the mythological tales.

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  • Hamlet

    Met Opera Live in HD: Brett Dean’s Hamlet

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

    When Australian composer Brett Dean’s Hamlet had its world premiere at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2017, The Guardian declared, “New opera doesn’t often get to sound this good … Shakespeare offers a gauntlet to composers that shouldn’t always be picked up, but Dean’s Hamlet rises to the challenge.”

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  • Close Encounters With Music

    Close Encounters With Music: Musica Latina

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

    Classical Spanish and Flamenco dancer and choreographer Irene Rodriguez has been the leading figure of Spanish dance in Cuba. 

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