Berkshire on Stage

by Barbara Waldinger What could be more satisfying for a theatre critic with a penchant for opera than to attend a bel canto performance of…

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…

by Barbara Waldinger To celebrate their tenth anniversary, the Berkshire Opera Festival has selected one of the most beloved, most frequently produced operas in the Verdi canon:  LA…

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…

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…

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…

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…

by Roseann Cane Today one of the most frequently performed operas in the world, La Bohème premiered in 1896 in Turin, conducted by the 28-year-old…