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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Billy Goats Gruff and Other Tales
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAMermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia’s newest production, Billy Goats Gruff and Other Tales, presents a fresh and engaging reimagining of three cherished children’s stories—Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
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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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Better Than Ezra
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MASongs, albums, live performances — some are simply timeless. From their early roots, circa 1988, playing house parties at Louisiana State University, Better Than Ezra have made their mark on the music world in a major way.
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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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Michael Feinstein – Big Band Broadway featuring the Carnegie Hall Ensemble
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MABroadway never sounds better than when it swings. With the greatest contemporary jazz musicians, Michael Feinstein swings the songbook into the 21st Century.
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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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An Evening with Railroad Earth
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAFor over two decades, Railroad Earth has captivated audiences with gleefully unpredictable live shows and eloquent and elevated studio output.
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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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Tom Papa: Grateful Bread Tour
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAWith more than 20 years as a stand-up comedian, Tom Papa is one of the top comedic voices in the country, finding success as an actor, host, and author, in film, TV, radio and podcasts as well as on the live stage.
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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.