REVIEW: Heartbeat Opera’s “Vanessa” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
by Michael Moran, Special to Berkshire on Stage [EDITOR’S NOTE: The Williamstown Theatre Festival did not include Berkshire on Stage on their press email list,…
Berkshire Opera Festival Launches 10th Anniversary Summer Season
Great Barrington, MA — Having succeeded in restoring world-class, fully-staged opera to the Berkshires, the “innovative, clever and thoroughly professional” (Bachtrack) BERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL (BOF) is now busy rehearsing and producing its…
Heartbeat Opera Brings Samuel Barber’s “Vanessa” to North Adams
Williamstown, MA — New York’s Heartbeat Opera—the indie company whose daring, stripped down takes of classic operas have been called “a radical endeavor” by The New Yorker and “revelatory” by The…
New England Gilbert & Sullivan Society Announces Sing-Through of “Iolanthe”
New England Gilbert & Sullivan Society (NEGASS) invites you to join us for a sing-through of Iolanthe Sunday, March 30, 2025, 2 PM Wesley United Methodist Church 98…
R. B. Schlather Brings Handel’s “Guilio Cesare” to Hudson Hall
Hudson, NY – Visionary opera director and Hudson resident R.B. Schlather reunites with early music band Ruckus for six performances of Handel’s baroque blockbuster GIULIO CESARE at Hudson Hall from April 19-May 2,…
Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s “Loksi’ Shaali'(Shell Shaker)” to Have East Coast Premiere at Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA (February 18, 2025) – On February 28, 2025 at 7:30pm, Chickasaw American composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s new opera Loksi’ Shaali’ (Shell Shaker), conducted by Tianhui Ng will have its East…
Adams Theater to Host Composer Stephanie Chou for ‘Comfort Girl,’ an Operatic Story of Asian ‘Comfort Women’ During WWII
“No shoes, no name, no face, no freedom, No pride, no future, no hope. No life. I never was a comfort woman. I never was…
REVIEW: “Faust” at the Berkshire Opera Festival
by Barbara Waldinger Charles Gounod’s FAUST, currently playing at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, is the Berkshire Opera Festival’s first foray (now in its ninth…