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Close Encounters With Music: Skylark Vocal Ensemble, Matthew Guard, Artistic Director
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MABritten’s radiant Flower Songs and Benedict Sheehan’s mellifluous Songbird Antiphons anchor a program of music inspired by gardens, birdsong, and the living world.
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Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Kevin Puts’s Silent Night
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: Kevin Puts’s Silent Night
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAFollowing his smash-hit company debut with The Hours, composer Kevin Puts returns to the Met with his Pulitzer Prize–winning first opera, inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce, when soldiers spontaneously set aside the horrors of the First World War and crossed the trenches to mingle, exchange gifts, and sing carols with the enemy.
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Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia: Ocean Blue
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MADesigned for children aged 5+ and their grown-ups, this one-hour experience celebrates marine ecosystems while sparking curiosity, imagination, and awe.
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Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Massenet’s Manon
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: Massenet’s Manon
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAFollowing her radiant performance in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette—which garnered raves for “high notes that spun like liquid gold … Sierra touched the operatic firmament” (The New York Times)—superstar soprano Nadine Sierra takes on another alluring French heroine, the irresistible title character of Massenet’s passionate drama.
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Close Encounters With Music: Dvorak – In the New World and Old World
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAFrom humble beginnings to stardom, Antonín Dvořák straddled two centuries, two continents, rural and urban sensibilities and folk styles inspired by Czech and Slavic traditional music as well as by an American sojourn.
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Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Verdi’s Otello
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: Verdi’s Otello
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAOne of today’s leading dramatic tenors, Brian Jagde takes on the tour-de-force title role of what many consider the ultimate Italian opera.
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Close Encounters With Music: Vivace Orchestra – The Golden Chain of Classical Music
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAWestern music at its apex—Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven in full symphonic glory with large-scale repertoire never before performed in South County!
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Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Wagner’s Parsifal
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 Parsifal
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAA profound philosophical meditation on compassion and reconciliation, this transcendent rendering of a medieval knight’s heroic quest for the Holy Grail returns to the big screen in François Girard’s celebrated production, a “thoughtful and intrepid staging, full of striking imagery” (The New York Times).
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Close Encounters With Music: World Premiere – The Metamorphosis, Love
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MALoss, remembrance, joyous recollection, metamorphosis and love. These are universal themes and a progression of states of emotion that animate the music and texture of the program.