Opera Saratoga Announces Casting for 2026 Festival Season

Saratoga Springs, NY (Feb. 9) — Opera Saratoga has announced casting for its 2026 festival season, marking the company’s 65th anniversary with a diverse slate of opera, musical theatre, new works, and community-centered programming. Performances will take place primarily at Universal Preservation Hall in Saratoga Springs, New York. Many performers…

Berkshire Opera Festival Announces 2026 Summer Season

Great Barrington, MA â€” BERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL (BOF) announces its 2026 summer season under the vision of Co-founders Brian Garman (William E. Briggs Artistic Director) and Jonathon Loy (Director of Production), and new President and CEO Natalie Johnsonius Neubert. In its 11th year, the company remains unique in the culturally rich Berkshires for producing opera at the highest level. This season, Berkshire Opera…

Opera Saratoga Announces Plans for 65th Anniversary Season

Saratoga Springs, NY (Oct. 31) – Opera Saratoga — the Capital Region’s only professional opera company — is celebrating its 65th anniversary with its eyes firmly on the future, with a modern new minimalism that makes room for maximum drama.    “With a move towards the future, Opera Saratoga announces an upcoming season that is stripped down, up…

Opera Saratoga Announces 2023 Season

Opera Saratoga is pleased to announce their 2023 summer season: Don Pasquale, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, and The Selfish Giant – all to be performed at Universal Preservation Hall, 25 Washington Street in Saratoga Springs, NY. Tickets will be available for Subscribers in January 2023. Single Tickets…

REVIEW: “Don Pasquale” at the Berkshire Opera Festival

by Fred Baumgarten Comedy, arguably one of the two greatest human gifts – the other being music – is a timeless art. Picture an arrow pointed on two sides, flying through spacetime, picking up a Greek comedy here, a courtly farce there, a Gilbert and Sullivan here, a Seinfeld there,…

Berkshire Opera Festival Announces Fourth Season, Moves to the Mahaiwe

Berkshire Opera Festival announces its fourth season, featuring Donizetti’s Don Pasquale Following its widely-acclaimed third season, BOF will present three fully-staged performances August 24, 27, and 30 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, MA. The crusty old bachelor Don Pasquale decides to marry a much younger wife and produce an…