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 season) into French grand opera. Maestro Brian Garman (Artistic Director, co-Founder and conductor), explains what that entails: “intimate and heartfelt melodies, spirited and rousing choruses,…
Berkshire Opera Festival has restored world-class, fully-staged opera to the Berkshires with savvy productions and superlative casts. This summer’s mainstage opera is a reimagined French classic: FAUST August 24 at 1PMAugust 27 at 7:30PMAugust 30 at 7:30 PM This new production of Gounod’s timeless masterpiece about a man who sells his soul to the…
This spring, BOF proudly presents the first workshop performanceof a brand new opera from the Pulitzer Prize-winning composerof The Central Park Five and X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X: THE REEF April 10Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center, New York CityA new opera (Act 1) by composer Anthony DavisLibretto by Joan Ross SorkinAdapted from the…
