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…
RODELINDAOctober 20, 24, 26, 28 at 7pmOctober 22, 29 at 3pm at Hudson Hall, 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY Performances in Italian with English supertitlesRunning Time: Approx. 2 hours and 15 minutesOpera by G.F. Handel, premiered at the King’s Theater in London, 1725Direction and Production R.B. SchlatherWith early music band Ruckus Hudson, NY…
Hudson, NY —Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House announces RODELINDA as the first in an ambitious multi-year series of operas by G.F. Handel with the daring, internationally acclaimed director (and Hudson resident) R.B. Schlather. Six performances take place October 20, 24, 26, 28 at 7pm and October 22 and 29 at 3pm. Tickets start at $25 and go…
