Great Barrington, MA — 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…
November 18, 2025 (BECKET, Mass.) — Jacob’s Pillow is pleased to announce that its beloved summer dance festival in the Berkshires, returning to a ten-week schedule next summer, will include week-long engagements in the Ted Shawn Theatre by Martha Graham Dance Company in the company’s 100th anniversary year (presented in partnership with…
MIFA Victory Theatre presents Play With TimeAug 23 at 2:00 PMAug 24 at 7:00 PMTanglewood Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA Presented by Tanglewood (TLI) in collaboration with MIFA Victory Theatre and the Ensemble for the Romantic Century This groundbreaking music theater piece by Eric Henry Sanders reconfigures…
Offering Same-Day, Half-Priced Tickets to Seven Performing Arts Venues (Pittsfield, MA) – Barrington Stage Company is excited to offer the return of the popular ½ TIX program for 2022, which offers half-priced tickets to residents and visitors throughout the Berkshires. Patrons can buy same-day half-priced tickets to performances at two conveniently…
Applications due January 21, 2022 (Boston, MA—January 3, 2022) Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI)—one of North America’s premier summer training programs for young musicians—announces preliminary details of Summer 2022 repertoire, programs, and premieres. With 18 two-week Workshops (June 19-July 2, 2022) and 6 Young Artists Programs for Strings and Orchestra; Winds & Brass; Percussion; Harp; Voice; Composition; and Piano (July…
by Macey Levin As the world probably knows, 2018 would have been Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, also that of Jerome Robbins. Bernstein was a musical genius as a conductor, music educator on television and a composer of classical music, ballets, and broadway musicals. In our part of the world Barrington…
by Fred Baumgarten The best way to appreciate Leonard Bernstein’s 1983 opera, A Quiet Place, is through the music. At Tanglewood last week, this infrequently performed work was given a spirited defense by the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra and Vocal Fellows under the baton of Stefan Asbury, in a 2013 version…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 1998 Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves was described in the Berkshire Opera Company literature as “the world’s reigning Carmen”. Being an opera idiot, I was not quite sure what that meant, until I went to Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood last night and was enlighted. Although they…
