REVIEW: “Cosí” at the Glimmerglass Festival
by Patrick White Are you ready to par-tay? Glimmerglass Festival is throwing a bash, a monster mash with their new production of Cosí whose abbreviated title is…
Mahaiwe Announces Met Opera in HD 2026-27 Season
Great Barrington, Mass.—The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will present eight screenings from the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD 2026-27 season, October 4 through June 12. The…
REVIEW: “Suddenly Last Summer” at Bard Summerscape
by Patrick White Suddenly Last Summer adapted from Tennessee Williams’ play as an opera with a ravishing score by Courtney Bryan, libretto by Gideon Lester and…
Berkshire Opera Festival Announces “Lucia di Lammermoor” as 2026 Mainstage Production
Great Barrington, MA — BERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL (BOF) announces its 2026 summer mainstage production, a new mounting of one of the most celebrated works in the operatic canon, Gaetano Donizetti’s LUCIA…
“Deidamia” and “Messiah” Announced as Next Productions of Handel on the Hudson
Hudson, NY – Following the success of GIULIO CESARE in 2025 and RODELINDA in 2023, Hudson Hall announces the next two productions in its Handel on the Hudson series with visionary opera director R.B.…
Berkshire Opera Festival Launches Inaugural Season of Resident Artist Program at PS21
BERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL (BOF) proudly launches the inaugural season of the company’s groundbreaking Resident Artist Program, an eight-week paid residency which The Berkshire Eagle featured this past February. The residency culminates in a…
REVIEW: “Happy End” presented by The Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Saratoga, The Seagle Festival, and Finger Lakes Opera
by Gail M. Burns In Berlin, Germany, in 1928 The Threepenny Opera was a huge and lucrative hit for Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, and Brecht’s…
Berkshire Opera Festival Presents “Flower and Hawk” at Ventfort Hall
Lenox— On Saturday, May 2nd at 2 p.m., Berkshire Opera Festival invites audiences to step into the riveting world of Eleanor of Aquitaine in “Flower and Hawk,” a…