REVIEW: “Lucia di Lammermoor” at the Berkshire Opera Festival
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 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…
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…
Berkshire Opera Festival Mounts Inaugural Second Stage Production “Glory Denied”
Clockwise from top left:Daniel Belcher, Caroline Worra, Maria Valdes, John Riesen Berkshire Opera Festival mounts its inaugural second stage production: GLORY DENIED by 2012 Guggenheim Fellow Tom Cipullo. A two-act opera scored…
REVIEW: “Martha Mitchell Calling” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2006 I am linking this review of the 2006 production at Shakespeare & Company to the 2007 production at…
REVIEW: “No Background Music” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2006 I wanted to be sure to separate my reviews of Martha Mitchell Calling and No Background Music because I knew from the…
REVIEW: “Much Ado About Nothing” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2003. I had a wonderful time at the opening night of Much Ado About Nothing. So did everyone else in…