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…
Berkshire Opera Festival Presents Gounod’s “Faust” at the Mahaiwe
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…
Berkshire Opera Festival Announces 2024 Season
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…
Berkshire Opera Festival Continues Season with Mainstage Production of “La Bohème”
The “innovative, clever and thoroughly professional” (Bachtrack) Berkshire Opera Festival continues its 2023 summer season with a mainstage production of La Bohème on August 26, August 29, and September 1 at The Colonial Theater…
REVIEW: Berkshire Opera Festival’s “Don Giovanni”
by Barbara Waldinger In the age of Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, how is a director embarking on a production of one of the many…
Berkshire Opera Festival Presents its 2022 Mainstage Production “Don Giovanni”
On August 20, 23, and 26, Berkshire Opera Festival‘s 2022 season culminates with the summer’s most ambitious undertaking: a new staging by BOF co-founder Jonathon Loy of Mozart’s comedy-tragedy masterpiece DON…
REVIEW: “Falstaff” at the Berkshire Opera Festival
by Barbara Waldinger Who would have believed that here in the Berkshires we would have our own opera festival showcasing talent from all over the…