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Great Barrington, Mass.—Grammy Award-winning opera singer Anthony Roth Costanzo will headline the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center’s annual gala on Sunday, August 2 at 8 p.m. The event will honor outgoing Mahaiwe Board Chair Margaret Deutsch.
“Anthony is a rare voice and a powerful performer whose charisma and talent have taken him to stages from the Met Opera House to Broadway to intimate cabaret rooms,” said Mahaiwe Board member and Gala Committee co-chair Jamie DuMont. “Like Margaret Deutsch, he has dedicated his career to celebrating great works of the past while also pushing his art form forward with intelligence and sensitivity. We couldn’t imagine a more appropriate performer to honor her immeasurable contributions to the arts and to the Mahaiwe.”
For the second year in a row, DuMont is chairing the Gala Committee alongside husband Rick Miramontez. DuMont and his business partner Rob Russo run The Fabulous Invalid, a theatrical production company that brought its play Call Fosse at the Minskoff to the Mahaiwe in 2022. Miramontez is a public relations specialist and founder of DKC-O&M, a public relations agency for the arts and culture industry. Miramontez previously served on the Mahaiwe Board of Directors from 2021 through 2023.
The Mahaiwe’s 2026 Gala Honoree is outgoing Board Chair Margaret Deutsch. Deutsch retired as Senior Managing Principal and Chief Financial Officer at Boston-based architectural firm CBT, where she was responsible for the financial and administrative management of the firm and chair of its Executive Board. Deutsch joined CBT in 1980 and has more than 35 years of experience in architectural firm operations and finance. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Applied Piano from the New England Conservatory of Music, a degree in English and a Master of Business Administration in Finance (with high distinction) from the Bentley Graduate School of Business. Margaret was named CFO of the Year in 2020 by the Boston Business Journal.
Constanzo’s performance will be preceded by a gala reception and dinner at 5 p.m. Dinner will be catered by Peter Platt of Old Inn on the Green. Drinks will be provided by Domaney’s Liquors and Fine Wines. The event is coordinated in partnership with Only in My Dreams Events, with floral design by Erica Darling Flowers. Avida Love Photography will photograph the event.
The Mahaiwe’s gala is the organization’s main annual fundraising event. In addition to performance and gala ticket sales, the Mahaiwe will raise funds for capital needs of the theater, through a paddle raise auction during the gala.
Tickets
Performance-only tickets are $75 to $100 and go on sale to Mahaiwe Members on Wednesday, March 18 at noon, and to the public on Wednesday, March 25 at noon.
Tickets can be purchased online at mahaiwe.org, or by calling or visiting the Box Office, 413-528-0100, on Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 4 p.m.
To learn more about Mahaiwe Membership, contact Brenna Hull at 413-644-9040 x107 or brenna@mahaiwe.org, or visit mahaiwe.org/membership.
For gala dinner packages, contact Mahaiwe Director of Advancement Diane Wortis at diane@mahaiwe.org or 413-644-9040 x123.
About Anthony Roth Costanzo
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo began performing professionally at the age of 11 and has since appeared in opera, concerts, recitals, film, and on Broadway. He is the General Director and President of Opera Philadelphia and the Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall’s SongStudio. He is a three-time Grammy nominee, winning for his starring role in the Metropolitan Opera’s Akhnaten.
He has appeared with many of the world’s leading opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, Opera National de Paris, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, English National Opera, Liceu Barcelona, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Los Angeles Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Dallas Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, Glimmerglass Festival (where he served as the 2023 Artist in Residence), and Finnish National Opera. He has performed at a wide-ranging variety of venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Hollywood Bowl, Versailles, The Kennedy Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wigmore Hall, Minamiza Kyoto, Joe’s Pub, The Guggenheim, The Park Avenue Armory, and Madison Square Garden.
A champion of new work, Costanzo created roles in the world premieres of Corigliano’s The Lord of Cries and Gregory Spears’ The Righteous at the Santa Fe Opera, Jimmy Lopez’s Bel Canto at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Jake Heggie’s Great Scott at the Dallas Opera. He has also premiered works written for him by Joel Thompson, Matthew Aucoin, Paola Prestini, Gregory Spears, Viet Cuong, Carlos Simon, Suzanne Farrin, Bernard Rands, Scott Wheeler, Mohammed Fairouz, Steve Mackey, and Nico Muhly.
His many awards include the Beverly Sills Award from the Metropolitan Opera, the History Maker Award from New York Historical, the Musical America Vocalist of the Year, first place in Operalia competition, Grand Finals Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a George London Award, a career grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation, and being the first countertenor to win First Place in the Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCullom competition. He also received a Sullivan Foundation Award and has won First Place in the Opera Index Competition, the National Opera Association Vocal Competition, and the Jensen Foundation Competition.
Costanzo graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University, where he has returned to teach. He received his Masters of Music from the Manhattan School of Music, where he now serves on the board of Trustees as well as on the board of the National Black Theater. He has been a fellow at Oxford and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. This season, Costanzo returns to the Opéra National de Paris for a solo concert and new production of Phillip Glass’ Satyagraha, to Opera Philadelphia for the premiere of The Seasons. He also makes his debuts at both the Gran Teatro del Liceu and the famed Royal Concertgebouw in Akhenaten, and appears in recital in New York, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C.
About the Mahaiwe
Located in downtown Great Barrington, Mass., the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center is the year-round presenter of world-class music, dance, theater, classic films, Live in HD broadcasts, and arts education programs for the southern Berkshires and neighboring regions. The intimate jewel box of a theater opened in 1905. Since 2005, the performing arts center has hosted over 2,500 events and welcomed over 600,000 people through its doors. More than 28,000 students from 77 different schools have benefited from the Mahaiwe’s school-time performances and residencies. In 2025, the Mahaiwe opened a second performance venue, the Indigo Room. For more information, see mahaiwe.org.
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